Is "user-select: none" bad UX?
I was having a discussion today with a colleague. I showed her “user-select: none” – a CSS property that stops a user from selecting text.
To me, this property allowed a more app-like experience to be created on a page – ensuring that eve…
The difference between mock-up, prototype and wireframe
I am a freshman in UX design and find it difficult to understand the difference between mock-up, wireframe and prototype. Are they referring to the same thing?
The difference between mock-up, prototype and wireframe
I am a freshman in UX design and find it difficult to understand the difference between mock-up, wireframe and prototype. Are they referring to the same thing?
Assigning modules from a library to a server where the number of modules can change?
I need to create a design for an internal tool that we will try to utilize within our own team that works with software testing. We will try to build a tool that can help us automatically setup a test system.
I have a list of servers that…
Why is Windows registry so unfriendly?
Why does the Windows registry seem so opaque? I thought a good practice in CS was to give explicit names to variables and constants, but the registry has mysterious names and values.
For example, I tried to change the way w…
What’s the best way to display hierarchical tabular data (parent/child relationship) while allowing both pagination and search?
I’ve run into a brick wall while trying to come up with a suitable tabular user interface for showing hierarchical data in a table while at the same time including a search interface and pagination.
The basic structure of th…
In Google Maps, why did Google use back arrow icon instead of "X" close for search results list when its clearly a layer on top of the main interface?
I’ve been getting into Material design lately, and I really liked one of the material concepts, and thats to think of the UI in X,Y,Z axis. But noticed a discrepancy with what might be extremely trivial but its confusing me r…
Designing Web Interfaces For Kids
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Kids spend a lot of time online, and their cognitive and physical limitations present many challenges to them when they do so. Pair that with poorly designed content and dark patterns, and you have a bad mix. As designers on the web, we have a responsibility to create things that empower kids and make them smarter, not the opposite.
This article will give you some insights about what kids are like from the psychological point of view, and how this affects the way they use the web. We’ll also cover practical design guidelines to create better web stuff for kids.
The post Designing Web Interfaces For Kids appeared first on Smashing Magazine.
Do Users Take Product Tours?
Product tours have become very popular in recent times. It’s also used here on StackExchange. I personally mostly skip the ‘Take a 2 min Tour’ notifications or link.
So I’m wondering; based on research/ statistics anyone kno…
Why does the fridge thermostat have an inverted scale?
In all fridges that I’ve ever encountered which had a manual thermostat, the scale on the thermostat was a scale of “inverse temperature”:
- 1 means keep the fridge hotter
- 5 means keep the fridge colder
Why is it like that?
Note that on the manual the producer “cheats”, specifying it’s a scale of power (5 => more power => colder), but of course the actual knob controls a thermostat.
(Of course, modern fridges don’t have a knob any more and they just set themselves to 3-4°C.)