Sorry, but I have to stop you this very instant. If you are expecting to learn something new by reading this article, I am going to let you down big time. However, I do think you should bookmark this page and return to it from time to time and have a refill. A lot of [...]
I’ve been wanting to write this short post for quite some time just to stress how much I love when big companies listen to their users. I wrote a blog post back in April regarding the iPhone tab bar that got some attention. In that post, I used the tab bar of Spotify for iPhone [...]
I attended a Microsoft Windows Phone 7 (WP7) design seminar here in Stockholm last week, where two designers from the Microsoft design team gave a comprehensive insight to the rationales behind the Metro design language. Of course, you do not need a four hour presentation about Metro to understand that Microsoft has been greatly inspired [...]
First of all, I need to warn all readers that the type of user-interface nerdery that is the subject of this short article might actually be unhealthy. It happens to be that I am currently working in an application project where we have been putting a lot of time polishing the visual details of a [...]
One morning a couple of months ago I woke up tired at the fact that the alarm clock on my iPhone plays the most boring tunes, and then it struck me: What if I could wake up to my favorite songs on Spotify? I did not feel that the idea was unique, but after some benchmarking [...]
Over the last couple of years, the iPhone has greatly popularized the tab bar navigational model for mobile handsets. Apple has put together a design rationale for the tab bar in their Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) along with lots and lots of other information — they do however leave some question unanswered. Having worked with [...]
News about Apple filing a patent for putting contact icons on the iPhone home screen surfaced in the blogosphere about a year ago. Almost at the same time an application called “Min Älskling” (“My Love”) appeared on the top charts of the Swedish App Store for $0.99. The only thing the My Love application did [...]
With a robust grid system, designers can bring order and structure to a layout by creating a natural flow and rhythm between different elements in the design. A myriad of web based grid systems have surfaced during the last couple of years — such as Blueprint, 960 Grid System, The 1kb CSS Grid, and The [...]
I have marked up and styled my share deal of menus for mobile web during the last couple of years. When I started out, the only way to make handsets render menus with a more appealing look was to resort to the unpleasant hell of table layouts. Fortunately, now that devices such as the Nokia [...]