How To Use Shadows And Blur Effects In Modern UI Design
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When you examine the most successful interaction designs of recent years, the clear winners are those who provide an excellent functionality. While functional aspect of a design is key to product success, aesthetics and visual details are equally important — particularly how they can improve those functional elements.
In today’s article, I’ll explain how visual elements, such as shadows and blur effects, can improve the functional elements of a design.
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What is the benefit of 2 drive thru lanes at a fast food restaurant?
The following photo shows the drive thru lane at a fast food restaurant. The lane splits in two to allow 2 drivers to place their order at the same time.
The following photo shows an overhead view of the restaurant:
As you can see, …
Why don’t <button> HTML elements have a CSS cursor pointer by default?
A friend was asking me why <button> HTML elements don’t have a CSS cursor pointer by default?
It is the default behavior for links, and can be achieved on a button with
button { cursor:pointer; }
Still, why this difference? Sou…
The Realities Of User Experience Design Within The Luxury Industry
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For luxury companies and upscale lifestyle service providers, excellence in experience is an essential component of the value delivered. Conceptually different from the mass market, the luxury domain relies not only on offering the highest differentiated products and services, but on delivering experiential value.
Adopting technology and embracing a digital presence through platforms and initiatives, the luxury industry today is tackling the challenge of designing an unparalleled user experience (UX) online. In this article, we’ll present a case study and share observations on the peculiarities of the UX design of a luxury lifestyle service platform and its mobile apps.
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Should you always confirm sign-out in a mobile app?
Is this necessary as it’s not a critical action but I see it in a few apps. If so, what are the reasons behind it?
What’s the recommended max width for the main container and for the main column, for large screens?
Based on this question, “Why do many sites leave half of each webpage empty?” and its comments and answers, I did some research, but I didn’t find a complete answer.
For me it is obvious that it is a good decision to limit the width of t…
Getting Started With VR Interface Design
The virtual realm is uncharted territory for many designers. In the last few years, we’ve witnessed an explosion in virtual reality (VR) hardware and app…
Fixed width for buttons or proportional with the text?
What is the best practice for a UI, to make all the similar buttons with a fixed-width, no matter how long is the text (with the condition to fit) or make the width proportional with the text and add the same padding?
Update:
Please check…
Mobile-First Is Just Not Good Enough: Meet Journey-Driven Design
In a recent sales meeting for a prospective healthcare client, our team at Mad*Pow found ourselves answering an all-too-familiar question. We had covered…
Form navigation mental model
If an user comes from Windows based software, where in forms you navigate through the inputs with enter key and save by ctrl+s, to browser based software where the default navigation is done with the tab key and save with enter, what can I…