UI Patterns Blog

Article · Mar 01, 2009

Speed in software design

Since AJAX became popular in web design, web applications has started to look much like desktop applications and has as such begun to suffer from some of the same design flaws. What I especially want to rid the world for...

By Anders Toxboe

Feb 18, 2009

User interface sketching tip 3: Use a thick pen

This blog post is one out of several blog posts on improving your user interface sketching techniques. You might want to read...

Feb 05, 2009

User Interface Anti-Patterns

As you develop the skills of an experienced user interface designer you are bound to make mistakes. However, as UI-Patterns.com is a...

Feb 04, 2009

User interface sketching tip 2: Drop shadow

Remember the photoshop technique that first was loved then later became an effect, and after that suffered being way to overused in...

Feb 01, 2009

Absolutely beautiful diagram design

Just today I discovered a website called Very Small Array, which from time to time post diagrams summing up interesting facts –...

Jan 27, 2009

35 ways to tease your content

With the rise of magazine-style laid out websites, creating teasers for your content has become a new art form.

Jan 26, 2009

User interface sketching tips part 1

Hopefully, you find yourself drawing mockup paper prototypes for the software products you are working on. It’s a fast and versatile way...

Jan 22, 2009

Prioritization of features explained graphically

I have long argued for using agile development methodologies as my preferred tool for guiding the software development I have been part...

Jan 19, 2009

The difference between UI-patterns.com and CSS galleries

After the relaunching UI-patterns.com and adding a new Screenshot collections-section of the site, I’ve frequently been asked how the new section is...

Jan 15, 2009

A pattern to prevent another pattern

This site is mostly focused on showcasing good solutions that solve common problems. A design pattern which however hasn’t received much attention...