Tag: UI

Aerotwist – Better password form fields

Heartbleed (hopefully) had us all changing our passwords. A lot of passwords. It was a grim reminder of just how terrible so many password policies are, but that’s beside the point. This is great: It was so frustrating to have 1Password generate a password for me only to find out that the established password policy […]

Posted: May 01, 2014

Discovering Sketch

I’m not a designer but I use the tools of designers a lot. I spend a lot of my time in Photoshop exporting assets for projects and on top of that paying what feels like an unfair price to do it. It’s not that I don’t think it’s worth it, I’m just ready for something […]

Posted: November 13, 2013

Firefox makes a decision, removes an option

There are two main points to talk about here, the first of which is the observation that Firefox has removed the option to disable JavaScript as of version 23. That is awesome. Naturally, the hive is upset at the decision because it takes away something people feel they have the right to control. I understand […]

Posted: July 02, 2013

jQuery plugin for Avgrund concept popin

jQuery plugin for Avgrund concept popin. Woo this is sharp looking. Modal dialogs have become a very valuable UI element we see and use every day. It’s great to see innovation continuing to happen in this space, and Avgrund Modals do just that. I think the resulting effect is quite neat and it’s implementation is […]

Posted: September 04, 2012

WordPress UI User Testing

Hey everyone, my name is Dave Martin. « Make WordPress UI. Depending on how interested you are with WordPress you may or may not know that the team behind WordPress recently made public a number of blogs that facilitate keeping up with real-time discussions amongst the team as they work on the next version of […]

Posted: July 24, 2012

Hacking: Always Design the UX First

Hacking: Always Design the UX First | systemizer. I really stand behind the message of this post as it applies directly to me too. It’s also one of the reasons I love Bootstrap so much, it produces enough of the UI to fully contribute to your excitement about a project by watching it unfold before […]

Posted: June 05, 2012

GNOME 3.4 arrives, introducing significant design changes

Hands-on: GNOME 3.4 arrives, introducing significant design changes. I’m still a Linux geek. Every few months I’ll get this overwhelming feeling that I’d love to just drop my current workflow entirely and get myself up and running with Linux. I can’t explain why, it’s just really attractive to me periodically. With my Linux fascination I’m […]

Posted: April 02, 2012

Introducing the New Developer Experience

Introducing the New Developer Experience – The Visual Studio Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs. I haven’t used a Microsoft product (aside from browser testing or helping with a family/friend computer issue) in a number of years, but I’m always interested in seeing what they’ve got cooking. It’s a monstrous company with many resources, […]

Posted: February 29, 2012

Re: Recent Google UI Changes

Kevin Fox – Google+ – I was writing a blog post about three recent changes to…. There’s a lot to read in this post, but it outlines a number of questions I’ve had as of late. Google’s never been looked at as a company that really optimized the design experience. That is until as of […]

Posted: February 23, 2012

HTML5 Clear

HTML5 Clear. There’s no question that Clear‘s UI is innovative. In fact I think it’s genius. It only took about four minutes for someone to replicate it in HTML5 and it’s surely worth a look on your applicable touch-capable device.

Posted: February 23, 2012