Etikett: ui design patterns

This blog post is, admittedly, a list of “User Interface failures” that you’ve suffered through, from badly designed elevators to the screen in the dashboard of your car. However, it’s also about what leads to these UI failures and how they could have been avoided — including a useful list of resources. I stay at one hotel […]

Remember: When you can’t figure out what to do next, it’s not your fault — it’s the user interface designer’s fault. And, nine times out of ten, the reason you can’t figure out what to do next is because the designer failed to correctly implement standard UI design patterns. Here are some examples of design […]

Here’s a better way to think about how you can assemble a truly “intuitive” user interface. Listen, I’ve got some ink on my body but even I recognize that offering people free tattoos is going to lead to some regrettable decisions. In User eXperience design, we have a similar problem with the idea of “affordances”: […]