Isn’t “above the fold” UI design dead? (Tuesdays with Joe, Episode 02)
Don’t people scroll automatically? And given that, isn’t this idea of “designing for the fold” — the bottom edge of the device/browser’s screen — obsolete? Irrelevant in the age of mobile devices? Not so fast. Look, the old arguments about getting every shred of...
UI Design Quick Tip: Better UX for Buttons
UI design improvement for a large site or system can seem like a gargantuan task. In some cases I’ve seen, we’re talking about hundreds of templates across even more screens. What’s often overlooked in these situations is the fact that huge improvements can actually...
Is it OK to design my UI before content is created?
Which came first, the content or the design? This chicken-and-egg debate has raged for as long as there have been designers, and content needing design. On both sides you’ll find seemingly sound reasons to do one before the other, but to my eye the balance has shifted...
4 Reasons Minimal UI May Mean Minimal Users
Common UI elements — buttons, menus and common actions —are a very significant part of what makes a site or app useful. The “chrome” as these elements are called, is being minimized in favor of increasing the amount of valuable content on the screen. In theory,...
5 Crucial Principles for Great Mobile Design
The exponential and continual explosion of apps for mobile devices is certainly keeping us designers and developers on our toes; it’s tough to keep up. The good news, however, is that while technology advances and devices evolve at breakneck pace, the principles for...
