Sliding Stepper: An End to the Painful Clicking
Steppers are a user interface control that offer users a way to increase and decrease values. They can type the value they want in the text box, or they can click the up and down buttons.
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How Color Saturation Affects User Efficiency
Have you ever passed on a product because you didn’t like its color? Color affects the way we feel about websites, but it can also affect the way we use them.
Killing the Cancel Button on Forms for Good
The Cancel button belongs in many places, but a form is not one of them. Their presence on forms isn’t as common as before because designers are starting to realize how useless and confusing they are.
Why You Should Add Hover Effects to Your Checkboxes
Checkboxes and radio buttons often get ignored by designers because they're not used often on forms. They may look small, but they can pack a strong punch when it comes to form questions.
Where to Align Form Buttons on Different Layouts
Have you ever wondered where to place your buttons at the end of your form? How you design your button is one thing, but where you place it can also affect form submissions.
How Larger Text Leading Leads to Easier Reading
When designers talk about leading, they're not talking about mechanical pencils. They're referring to the spacing between lines of text measured from baseline to baseline.
What the Rule of Thirds Can Do for Product Images
If your website sells products, it's important that your product images appeal to users. Beauty of an image doesn't just come from typography and color.
Top Navigation vs Left Navigation: Which Works Better?
Which is better for users, a top or left navigation? Web designers have debated this issue for a long time. Many have drawn their own conclusions, but others have mixed feelings.
Why It’s Important to Annotate Your Wireframes
Have you ever delivered your wireframes to a client only to have them tell you everything they disliked? This happens when clients judge your design before they understand it.
Why You Should Stop Using the Go Button for Search
Many websites offer users a search bar to make it easy for to find content without browsing. This saves users time and effort. But it doesn't do that when the search bar uses the ‘Go’ button for search.
8 Best User Interface Guidelines for Desktop and Mobile Apps
Have you ever wondered how much detail goes into designing a desktop or mobile interface? These user interface guidelines will give you insight into how the top tech companies design.
How to Simplify a Large Navigation Menu
Most websites with large navigation menus overwhelm users by showing them too many items at once. This happens when the user opens a dropdown menu in the navigation.
4 Best User Interface Design Pattern Libraries
Sometimes designers need inspiration when they're designing a user interface. User interface pattern libraries can give us different ideas we never thought of before.
Use Low Color Contrast for User Interface Constraints
Low color contrast has always been a common problem in web design. The problem with low color contrast is that it makes text and buttons hard for users see.
Use Dropdown Login Boxes for a Faster Login
Imagine how many different websites users log into everyday. Now think about how many times in their life a user will have used a login form to type in their username and password.