Category Archives: User Interface
“You must sign in or sign up to purchase this item.”
I was ready to purchase a new theme for my blog when I read the following: You must sign in or sign up to purchase this item. Ugh. Why? I found the theme on a marketplace so I figured I … Continue reading
Give What Users Want. Now.
YouTube used to display a bar chart to present the “likes” and “dislikes” of a video. What I would immediately see upon landing on the page was the proportion of site visitors who pressed the like and dislike button. But … Continue reading
Great User Interface: Read Users’ Mind
Ever looking up a word online and having to look up another word in the original word’s definition? Here are the steps to do it if you look up the word online. Go to dictionary.com Enter the word to look … Continue reading
Windows Phone 7 System Styles
When you add a new page to your WP7 application project, the default XAML page is likely to contain references to style definitions such as PhoneTextNormalStyle and PhoneTextTitle1Style. Those two style definitions are applied to the application title and page … Continue reading
Edit Post Screen (Variant II)
I thought of this during the long wait at In-n-Out drive-thru (yes, it was good). Utilizing the pivot control, I could place the writing area in one view and the auxiliary components (less used features) in another view. Which components … Continue reading
Text Guidelines for Windows Phone 7
A chapter in UI Design and Interaction Guide for Windows Phone 7 concerning text capitalization says that list items are to be displayed in lowercase. But the Design Templates released as Photoshop files and a Windows Phone app show list … Continue reading
