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Design Your Tablet Interfaces for Horizontal Swiping
Tablet usage is exploding. One study estimates that “90 million americans will use a tablet device in 2014″[1]. With this statistic, understanding how to design tablet interfaces is more important than ever.
Read more »200 UI Design Icons Winners
The 200 UI Design Icons giveaway has ended and it’s time to announce the five winners. Thank you to FileSquare for making this giveaway possible, and to everyone who participated.
Read more »Avoid the Pains of Pagination
Everyone has scrolled to the bottom of a web page before and seen that row of numbers. That row of numbers is a website’s pagination. Pagination is a user interface pattern that divides content into different pages.
Read more »Win 200 UI Design Icons
Do you have a set of icons to use for the user interface you’re designing? Win a set of 200 UI design icons you can use on your next project by entering this giveaway.
Read more »Stop Misusing Select Menus
A form has many user interface elements. If you don’t know how to use them all properly, you could make filling out forms difficult for your users. One interface element that’s commonly misused is the select menu.
Read more »Top 5 UX Articles of 2012
It’s time to wave goodbye to 2012 and welcome 2013. Before we usher in the new year, I’d like to share with you the most popular articles of the year based on pageviews. Next year I plan on writing even more articles and making them better than ever.
Read more »FileSquare Winners
The giveaway for three lifetime prototyping accounts of FileSquare has ended. Thanks to those who participated and the people at FileSquare for making this giveaway possible.
Read more »Why Password Masking Can Hurt Your Sign Up Form
Masking passwords is an age-old practice that’s commonly found on sign up and login forms. It’s used to prevent over-the-shoulder snoopers from catching a glance of the user’s password.
Read more »How Designers Can Save Time by Using WordPress Themes
Building a website from scratch is no easy task. It takes time to sketch, wireframe, design and code. This takes even more time if you’re working with a client. Luckily, there’s a way you can cut your work time in half and still deliver great results.
Read more »How Sans-Serif Typeface Styles Affect Readability
Almost everywhere you look on the web, there’s a sans-serif typeface. Sans-serif typefaces have long been the standard for on-screen text due to their increased readability for low screen resolutions.
Read more »8 Best Resources for Interface Icons
Nothing can make a text link more clear and elegant than placing a relevant icon next to it. Icons serve multiple purposes on a user interface.
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