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"Here’s why this section is about Controls: every day, your cursor protects you from unclear UI. It..."

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:58:31 +0100

“Here’s why this section is about Controls: every day, your cursor protects you from unclear UI. It helpfully turns into a text cursor as you hover over textboxes, or a hand as you hover over a link or action item. iPad has no such thing. Bad UI will stick out like a sore thumb, both in apps and on websites. Your tappable areas had better look tappable. Your controls had better look controllable. That decorative little page-curl in the corner of that entry had better turn a page. Without being able to subconsciously hover-to-test, users will end up frustrated at anything that doesn’t do what it looks like it should do, or vice-versa.”

- Cameron Daigle on iPad UI Design

"People like Instapaper because of the features it has now and the way they’re designed into the app...."

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:41:45 +0100

“People like Instapaper because of the features it has now and the way they’re designed into the app. If I let users steer product decisions, the result would be a massive codebase producing a bloated, cluttered product full of features that hardly anyone used at the expense of everyday usability and polish on the features that matter. Like Microsoft Word. Or Firefox. By listening too much to outside suggestions, I’d destroy the very reason why I’m receiving them.”

- Marco Arment - Side effects of developing for yourself

Here fishy fishy fishy!

Sat, 03 Jan 2009 13:52:00 +0100

A really interesting post by Jeremy Keith which raises a good question about the responsibilities on us developers.

“While we can’t protect people from themselves, we have a duty not to deceive them into thinking that throwing passwords around like confetti is acceptable behaviour.” - Adactio: Journal—The password anti-pattern

In an other post you get a very good example on the use of the “password anti-pattern”.

“Twply is ~~up for sale~~ …sold. That means all those passwords are available to the highest bidder ($1200 in this case).

Sleep tight, Twply users. May you wake to a better day.” - Adactio: Journal—Antipatterns for sale