UI Patterns Blog

Article · Jun 08, 2009

Give your users the backstage pass

As your web application become increasingly more complicated and deal with increasingly larger chunks of data it is possibly also going towards the path of being more unresponsive. Viewing a flash video in HD, Uploading a 300 MB file, or...

By Anders Toxboe

Jun 03, 2009

Don't worry about breaking the abstraction

Having a good descriptive metaphor to guide your design will help you immensely! Abstracting your thoughts into a metaphor provides an already...

May 28, 2009

Make people feel at home

How welcome do your users feel when using your product for the first time? How do you welcome them? Do you go...

May 13, 2009

Chase the unexpected

One of the basic challenges of building software is the lack of knowledge. We never know it all. Creating a new innovative...

May 05, 2009

Tear down the wall!

Too often, I see programmers who just want to program, designers who just want to design, sales people who just want to...

Apr 30, 2009

User life-cycle

The product-life-cycle is a well known phenomenon that explains users’ adoption of new technology and by that also your product. The early...

Apr 27, 2009

It's about the whole experience

The quality of a web application cannot only be judged on the quality of the application itself. A myriad of accompanying services...

Apr 21, 2009

First results from the UI patterns investigation

The UI pattern survey initiative was launched without much fuss last week. With over 1000 replies, the data collected is slowly gaining...

Apr 09, 2009

Low budget user testing

I recently attended a half-day seminar on best practices for handling redesigns of websites. The seminar itself wasn’t of much value –...

Mar 29, 2009

Quality in web design: Business needs vs. user expectations

Evaluating the quality of web design is predominantly a subjective process as it needs to be evaluated in relation to some sort...