Do material design’s floating action buttons provide a bad UX?
Google’s material design largely focuses on clean visuals and a good user experience, but there is one feature that I have questioned: floating action buttons.
This is a large button that appears in the bottom right of many …
Do material design’s floating action buttons provide a bad UX?
Google’s material design largely focuses on clean visuals and a good user experience, but there is one feature that I have questioned: floating action buttons.
This is a large button that appears in the bottom right of many …
UI/UX Design Patterns: What are good examples of registration flows that require a lot of info but manage to make it a painless experience?
Julian JamesThis is a great resource for the onboarding/registration process. The site shows detailed teardowns of how popular web apps handle their signup experiences.User Onboarding | A frequently-updated compendium of web app first-run experiencesI…
Where to find resources on tablet heatmaps?
I need heatmaps on tablet usage to see what regions users make use of on tablets.
The reason that I need to do this is that I need to do a recommendation on what gestures I can use the best, to do certain actions on tablets …
Mobile web app, "tab bar", useable or too obtrusive to bottom native browser controls?
I’ve never seen a case of someone using a tab bar in a mobile web app, but I think the idea has some merit.
I can understand that the actions may be hard to click because they’d be right above the native browser’s controls, …
Designing for Android (with zero Android experience and no Android device)
I was recently commissioned to wireframe, prototype and GUI design an Android app. While I am highly experienced with UI/UX/GUI design for mobile iOS apps, I have very limited experience designing for Android, and I don’t eve…
What to show while a game is loading?
I would like to know what is the best solution to show while a game is loading?
Do you think just showing a loading bar is enough, or is entertaining with a mini-game, like snake, the better solution?
To be more precise: It…
What do UX designers do?
Unfortunately the answer is that many UX designers don’t do UX anymore.
User Experience Designing is the designing of the whole user experience, and the confusion happens when people confuse design with visual design. Design is a process that may have multiple outputs, many of which are non visual.
What a User Experience Designer should do is architect a solution through user research, workshops, team work and through using a diverse tool set of skills, such as information architecture and content strategy. They should know why the project does what it does and why it does it from a users perspective.
Traditionally, and for good reason, a good UXer will hand across a set of blueprints (wireframes etc) for implementation specialists to work from. Implementation specialists include developers (front and back) and visual designers.
Also UX does not mean just web! If a person is a UX designer who does not user research, goes straight to code and visual design and only works in web then they are not a UX designer but a Web Designer.
In short – a lot of UX designers out there don’t do much UX.
Why do modern keyboards have Scroll Lock?
The Scroll Lock key is useless in the modern day, and some higher-end keyboards don’t even have it:
Same can be said for the Pause and Break keys, but however it pauses the BIOS POST output on many computers, so it’s a use…
Why do modern keyboards have Scroll Lock?
The Scroll Lock key is useless in the modern day, and some higher-end keyboards don’t even have it:
Same can be said for the Pause and Break keys, but however it pauses the BIOS POST output on many computers, so it’s a use…