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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 ...
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-...
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 ...
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...
Answered by GarthDB : Nov 20 2009 10:21 AM
Although I work in a small team there isn't a huge emphasis from the company put on the UX process, so we usually do it individually and ask for feedback from the director periodically.
I prefer ... full answer >
Answered by GarthDB : Nov 20 2009 10:24 AM
Not personally. If I worked with a dedicated designer I might, but right now we have another developer who does design work or I do my own design. Until there is good round trip support for FC to FB... full answer >
When it comes to data collection, user experience design is more important than ever. Data—that most valuable digital resource—comes from people and their actions, so designers and develop...
The iPhone gives developers several methods of detecting the
physical location of a device. This is by far one of its most innovative features and has
helped create many new business models ...
Consider the most likely interaction pattern for an iPhone: the user
pulls the device out of his pocket, taps a few times to accomplish a fixed
task, then locks the device and puts it back i...
Utility applications differ from productivity applications in that the information they display tends to represent a very simple graph—often a single content object—typically in an ambient...