“We have enhanced your privacy by sharing your browsing history and behavior with random websites. You’re welcome.”
(via @rmondello@hachyderm.io)
Thoughts on user experience design best practices and trends, and a sprinkling of actual new ideas.
“We have enhanced your privacy by sharing your browsing history and behavior with random websites. You’re welcome.”
(via @rmondello@hachyderm.io)
I’m thankful my mom is still with us and I have a totally fine relationship with her, but that’s not the case with everyone so for businesses with holiday-centric marketing this type of opt out from OpenTable is thoughtful customer experience.
(Smart business too as it likely means fewer people will just unsubscribe completely.)
We’ve been having the conversation regularly at the day job recently about how much time and effort we should be investing in dark theme component variants, and Brad Frost coincidentally just linked to a great article from CommandBar exploring that same question.
UX Magazine has a good overview that I found helpful of best practices for designing autosuggest experiences. Includes helpful examples and puts vocabulary around things like scoping, autocomplete vs autosuggest, and types of suggestions themselves.
The Games UI Database is a collection of screenshots of the user interfaces of various video games, filterable by a number of different categories. Definitely interesting to look through and possibly useful reference as well.
Dating back 50 years at this point, LEGO has designed tiny little user interfaces meant to be recognized by human-sized humans and “usable” by minifig-sized humans as well. An Austrian interaction technologist and design engineer does a fantastic deep dive into the design of LEGO interface panels as well as their real world counterparts.
Some great thoughts and looks into the design process self-serve pizza ordering kiosk app.
Starting a kiosk project at work and diving into some of the best practices and details of designing for a gigantic touchscreen. This article on how designing for a large public touchscreen is alike and different from mobile was super informative.