When building a website that relies on social interaction it is particularly important to design your feedback and reward structures to match your design goals. This article examines important details to consider. Continue reading 0 comments
A new trend on content-based websites seems is to animate a small box popping up at the bottom or top of the page, guiding users’ next move as they reach the end of an article. This technique is smart as it waits for just the right moment to break users’ attention. Continue reading 1 comment
Icons are most often used to enhance meaning and afford scanning in web design. The same icons have been used again and again for similar functions and in turn they have become synonyms for specific functionality or information. Continue reading 0 comments
There are far more video and audio player designs than what we know as the standard from youtube and vimeo. We’ve collected 57 examples of interesting multimedia player designs Continue reading 0 comments
We’ve explored the world of frontpage carousel slideshows and collected 51 great screenshot examples from web pages for your inspirational needs. Continue reading 2 comments
Keeping your site usable is like keeping your home clean; it’s all about hygiene. It only becomes a problem if the hygiene is bad. If not, good usability won’t even get noticed, but be taken for a given. Continue reading 10 comments
A new form of web analytics has appeared! Its one that records every keystroke, mouse movement, and click of your actual users for easy playback. That’s right! You can now sit back and literally watch every action your users make on your website. Continue reading 10 comments
When designing for efficiency in web application, an area that often gets little attention is the contexts of input. On most desktop computers, there are two ways of inputting data: via keyboard or mouse. Continue reading 4 comments
One a website delivering editorial content, the article teaser is one of the most important design elements besides the design of the article itself. The article teaser is part of an article list, and its main purpose to lure visitors to keep on browsing. Continue reading 2 comments
UI-Patterns.com is the work of Anders Toxboe – a Danish web developer seeking to categorize what has before seemed like ad hoc approaches to developing web applications.
By not only listing different ways of solving common design problems, but also rationalizing about how, when, and why such solutions should be used, it is the goal to create a tool that will help end feature debates, get a clear understanding of why we’re doing what we’re doing, and why we’re not doing what we’re not doing.
UI-Patterns.com is an attempt to over time create a library of such solutions to common problems. It is a personal project, but is open to contributions.
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