I’m building a rating-based discussion site.

Basically, it consist in a forum were people can create topics and reply to them (and also rate them).

I have approximately 10 topic categories.

I have two layouts in mind: one …

Mobile UX is a whole new world, specially apps. Over my past experience I got deeper & deeper into how browsers work & finally build an experience around it.

I agree some fundamentals would be true for both the platf…

I am using Light-on-dark color scheme (dark background with light text) in my application.

My question is, what are the negative and positive aspects of this color scheme and why this color scheme is not widely used?

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I have an interface that I am currently working on that asks the user to make a choice of a single item. These items are divided into 3 separate categories and the client has insisted that each category has their own “Continu…

Many years ago, I ran across a good icon design tutorial. It said that having unique contours to icons help users scan for the item they’re looking for. If this is true, why don’t iPhone and Android app icons use unique conto…