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• What is the optimal size of an iPhone touch target?

  

  By adfm : 30 June 2010 - 07:30 AM

  Designing an interface usually involves matching up to a grid. For a finger friendly interface to be effective you'll want the active interface elements to be no larger than a finger tip. But who&...

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  • UI
  • iPhone
  • interface
  • mobile

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• How to Design a Unique Visual Identity for Your iPhone App -- Vote for Your Favorite Tips

  

  By joshclark : 18 June 2010 - 09:24 AM

  My new O’Reilly book about iPhone user experience—Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps—hits bookshelves in the next few days (the ebook is already available). I thought it’d be fun to share ...

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  • user experience
  • ux
  • ui
  • design
  • apple
  • ios
  • iphone
  • tapworthy

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• How to initialize a jQuery UI plugin with custom options

  

  By sarahkim : 16 June 2010 - 03:36 PM

  This excerpt from jQuery Cookbook will show you how to use a jQuery UI plugin with options other than those selected by the plugin author to be the built-in defaults. Specify default option overrides ...

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  • jquery
  • plugin
  • UI

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• How to Make Menus More Responsive in Windows 7

  

  By adfm : 27 May 2010 - 10:06 AM

  The little details can make or break a user experience. Some users notice a lag, while others have a hard time with basic navigation. The default system settings are meant to be a sensible starting-...

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  • Windows 7
  • Menu
  • UI
  • UX
  • Registry

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• Yielding with JavaScript Timers

  

  By adfm : 17 May 2010 - 09:42 AM

  If you're experiencing a little UI lag with your web app, you might consider using a Javascript timer to even things out. This excerpt from Nicholas C. Zakas' High Performance Jav ...

  Tags:

  • performance
  • UX
  • UI
  • timers
  • JavaScript

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• A Methodology for UI Design Patterns Discovery

  Asked by EderAndres : 22 April 2010 - 05:37 AM

  

  Answered by zigurd : May 02 2010 10:45 AM
  The UI book you are starting from is a good starting point. It has good coverage of direct manipulation, for example, and why direct manipulation is desirable. But, like the GoF book, it is a compendi... full answer >

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  • design patterns
  • UI

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• Interesting moments from Bill Scott and Theresa Neil's Designing Web Interfaces Master Class

  

  By filmbilly : 21 April 2010 - 02:00 PM

  Bill Scott and Theresa Neil are ace UI designers that hosted an O'Reilly Master Class that deep dives the principles and patterns for rich web interfaces. Here's a chapter from their new class that d...

  Tags:

  • web interface design
  • ui
  • application patterns
  • user interface design
  • ria
  • screen layouts

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• Tips for Conducting Effective User Interviews

  

  By adfm : 15 April 2010 - 10:27 AM

  You only think you know what a user wants. The only way you're going to know for sure is to ask the user. Seems obvious, huh? Knowing what to ask and how to ask it can be stumbling blocks to getting...

  Tags:

  • UI
  • UX
  • users
  • interface
  • interview
  • research
  • usability

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• How to style jQuery UI Widgets with ThemeRoller

  

  By adfm : 17 February 2010 - 05:33 PM

  Keep your design consistent when using jQuery UI widgets. In this excerpt from jQuery Cookbook the authors introduce the ThemeRoller web application. To have jQuery UI widgets used in your websit...

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  • ThemeRoller
  • widgets
  • jquery
  • UI
  • javascript

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• How to use jQuery UI for advanced effects

  

  By adfm : 16 February 2010 - 02:05 PM

  Get past the simple effects you can easily generate with jQuery. In this excerpt from jQuery Cookbook the authors will demonstrate the use of jQuery UI for advanced effects. If you want to create mor...

  Tags:

  • javascript
  • CSS
  • HTML
  • UI
  • jQuery

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