How to associate color with accuracy for segmented gauge?
I’m writing a personality test app and am thinking of a way to implement the UI for recording answers. The test requires the user to answer how accurately terms like “kind” or “cold” describe their personality, using the following scale:
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True Lies Of Optimistic User Interfaces
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Three user interfaces (UIs) go to a pub. The first one orders a drink, then several more. A couple of hours later, it asks for the bill and leaves the pub drunk. The second UI orders a drink, pays for it up front, orders another drink, pays for it and so on, and in a couple of hours leaves the pub drunk.
The third UI exits the pub already drunk immediately after going in — it knows how the pubs work and is efficient enough not to lose time. Have you heard of this third one? It is called an “optimistic UI.”
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Getting The Sketch Workflow Right: Meet “The Sketch Handbook”
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Do you use Sketch, too? If you’re designing for the web today, you probably are. Well, we do, too, so we created The Sketch Handbook, our brand new Smashing book that will help you master all the tricky, advanced facets of Sketch. Filled with practical examples and tutorials in 12 chapters, the book will help you become more proficient and fast — with Sketch.
Sketch offers a wealth of tools and features to make it the perfect application for today’s designers: It lets you design interfaces, websites and icons with ease. To help you get the most out of this mighty tool, The Sketch Handbook will show you every aspect of it. Not in theory, but backed up by practical examples that you can follow along, step-by-step.
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You, Me And The Emoji: Character Sets, Encoding And Emoji
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We all recognize emoji. They’ve become the global pop stars of digital communication. But what are they, technically speaking? And what might we learn by taking a closer look at these images, characters, pictographs… whatever they are 🤔 (Thinking Face). We will dig deep to learn about how these thingamajigs work.
Please note: Depending on your browser, you may not be able to see all emoji featured in this article (especially the Tifinagh characters). Also, different platforms vary in how they display emoji as well. That’s why the article always provides textual alternatives. Don’t let it discourage you from reading though!
Now, let’s start with a seemingly simple question. What are emoji?
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Why are Progressive Web App Icons circular compared to their App counterparts
Working on a PWA (progressive web app) and coming up with the app icon for it. There aren’t many others around since it’s pretty new but it seems a lot of PWAs use a circular icon to differentiate from the native app.
Is there a particula…
How to address a user in an email?
We would like to send users of our service an email after they have availed our service. We get the bookings through online website or through offline medium. We have the users name ( just first name or full name) and the email. But, we wo…
Form Field Shape & Usability/Conversion Rates – Boxes vs Material Design Lines
I was wondering if there has been any usability research on the shape of form fields. I’m mainly interested if using the line form field popularized in material design introduces any usability issues.
My gut tells me older, less savvy u…
How To Poison The Mobile User
One of the most popular children’s television heroes here in the Czech Republic is The Little Mole, an innocent, speechless and cheerful creature who hel…
How To Build Honest UIs And Help Users Make Better Decisions
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Many apps today, such as Google Now, Spotify and Amazon, make assumptions about user preferences based on personal data. They may even use this information to make decisions on our behalf, without any direct input from us. For example, Facebook tailors your news feed and Amazon recommends products — both hiding “irrelevant” information and only showing what they think you will like.
This type of design pattern, where user choice is removed, has recently been coined “anticipatory design”. Its aim is to leverage data on user behavior to automate the decision-making process in user interfaces. The outcome lowers the excessive number of decisions people currently make, thereby reducing decision fatigue and improving decisions overall.
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"Link", "Alias" or "Create shortcut" in WP Media Library
Introduction
Here you can see a folder structure within a media library (Wordpress). Now, I want to make it very userfriendly to make it possible, that a file can be in multiple folders. The user should know, that the files are not dire…