The screen area of any smartphone is significantly smaller than that of a laptop or desktop computer. Which means much less information fits on it. Let’s look at an example of a “news feed” type application below:
The standard Helvetica font is used here. You can see that only …
To designers who sign off on an interface like this, all non-English-speaking users are pygmies. They think they can shove a surrogate, a fake at us and we’ll be happy with it and settle for it.
That’s where the whole great meaning of “I took a photo” in …
The most important guideline when writing code is to separate method implementations with several blank lines and a comment line. Despite modern IDEs’ capabilities for searching and structuring source code, visual orientation still plays an important role.
Consider the example below. There is an implementation of a class in Objective-C …
Every now and then various corporations publish shorts about the future: “What will things be like with information technology after the 2012 presidential election in the Russian Federation?” The latest film is published by Microsoft.
Productivity Future Vision (2011)
A few weeks after watching it, I came across the musings …
Reader Maxim asked me to write some notes about the usability of the user interface in Eclipse.
Dear Maxim!
I haven’t yet managed to take advantage of all the benefits of the integrated development environment “Eclipse,” version 3.7.1, item M20110909-1335, because for two hours straight now I …
A year ago we discussed the table design of the email client Microsoft Outlook. Today let’s talk about tables in Thunderbird.
When using the Mozilla Thunderbird email client, I often run into this scenario. I open the Sent folder and visually scan the list of sent emails, starting with …
Google’s designers are quietly losing their minds. Today I noticed that in the search results they changed the color of a visited link. Hello, colorblind people!
And they’ve also stopped underlining links. Try to guess what on this page is clickable and what isn’t.
And finally, you …
The “Addthis” button is in a hurry to recommend itself to me.
Amazing. I can’t imagine a person who would want to follow a button. Did the programmers really not think to show trending pages where this button gets clicked the most?
Bless, O Lord, my computer for the successful installation of the first service pack for Visual Studio; deliver the installer from the evil one and grant rest to the souls of the temporary files. Amen!
The service pack installer is competently made. As the components are downloaded, they start getting …
The scenario is this: when you start entering the CVV2, a virtual PIN-code keyboard pops up, while the window size doesn’t change, and 2/3 of the keyboard isn’t visible. I wonder how many users won’t figure out that they need to scroll the window? Or is …