Designing Web Interfaces

Diving into Indie UX: The Wrong Way

2012-03-27T19:58:45Z

We just wrapped up last day of the IA Summit 2012 in lovely New Orleans. I have enjoyed wonderful food, drinks, company and speakers including Stephen Anderson, Josh Clark, Chris Risdon, Greg Nudelman, Nadine Schaeffer and Dan Brown. But one of the talks on Saturday, a panel called Taking the Plunge: Diving into Indie [...]

eBook Released: Mobile Design Pattern Gallery

2012-03-08T17:04:41Z

Get it for $20 on the O’Reilly site, format ePub, mobi or PDF. Please rate it and leave a review, I appreciate all feedback. The print book should be available next week. I’ll be signing copies at SXSW @ 1:30pm, March 13 at the Expo Hall. document.getElementById("post-2084-blankimage").onload();

Design Beautiful & Usable Android Apps

2012-03-07T22:42:52Z

Here are some excellent resources if you are designing for Android Gingerbread or Ice Cream Sandwich. Galleries My Mobile Design Pattern Gallery has hundreds of screnshots from iOs, Android and other OSs. I also posted a presentation of The Best Android Apps The Best Android Apps 2012: A Designers Collection View more presentations from Theresa [...]

Show Me, Don’t Tell Me: Pattern Galleries vs Pattern Libraries

2012-02-06T16:58:42Z

I read a post on Boxes and Arrows this week titled Are Design Patterns an Anti-Pattern? where Stephen Turbek outlines the pitfalls of pattern libraries. This got me thinking about a UIE talk a couple of months back where Stephen Anderson ‘vilified’ the set of RIA screen patterns Bill Scott and I published in 2009 [...]

Does It Have Legs- Heuristics for Information Architecture

2012-02-06T03:02:05Z

Great talk from Abby the IA. Fresh style, clearly expressed. Can’t wait for the poster she’s making. Information Architecture Heuristics View more presentations from Abby Covert document.getElementById("post-2067-blankimage").onload();

jQuery Mobile Graffle Stencil

2012-01-20T17:23:17Z

Had to whip up an OmniGraffle stencil for jQuery Mobile. I submitted it to Graffletopia, but it isn’t live yet. You can download it here in the meantime. Just put in the user name > Library > Application Support > OmniGraffle > Stencils folder and unzip. Another great resource to help in your mobile web design [...]

Testing the iPad at the North Pole

2011-12-21T15:50:52Z

Happy holidays to all of our followers, clients and friends. document.getElementById("post-2058-blankimage").onload();

Mobile Web Options: Backbone.js

2011-12-02T16:36:34Z

I was speaking with some of our developers last night about a mobile web options like jQTouch, jQuery Mobile, Sencha Touch. And then we started talking about Backbone.js. I first heard about Backbone last week from a prospective client who mentioned they use it with PhoneGap to create their apps. I guess I’m late to [...]

New O’Reilly Book: Mobile Design Pattern Gallery

2011-11-29T03:56:27Z

We recently had a new mobile project starting and all of our experienced mobile designers were booked. This gave me less than a week to ramp up a new designer. So I made a quick tutorial with lots and lots of screenshots, illustrating good design and not so good design. Gradually a set of patterns [...]

Choose the best badge for PayPal Access- Win an iPad 2

2011-10-13T21:13:14Z

eBay debuted their new payments identity technology, PayPal Access, at the X.Commerce Innovate conference this week. Take a minute to complete this survey and pick your favorite design for the PayPal Access “identity badge”: start survey . You can win an iPad 2. Survey completion and a valid email are required (we will not spam [...]