UI Patterns Blog

Article · Sep 29, 2010

Designing for logos, pathos, and ethos

Convincing your users to sign up, letting them understand how you can help, or seducing them to engage, requires serious persuasion skills. In this blog post I apply Aristotle’s 3 means of persuasion to web design: how to appeal to...

By Anders Toxboe

Sep 12, 2010

100 sign up forms

Our sign up form collection: Account registration just turned 100! Explore a myriad of sign up form goodness.

Aug 03, 2010

Examining reward structures

When building a website that relies on social interaction it is particularly important to design your feedback and reward structures to match...

Jul 19, 2010

Keep users in the flow by prompting for continuation

A new trend on content-based websites seems is to animate a small box popping up at the bottom or top of the...

Jul 15, 2010

63 great uses of icons in web design

Icons are most often used to enhance meaning and afford scanning in web design. The same icons have been used again and...

Jul 13, 2010

57 video and audio player designs

There are far more video and audio player designs than what we know as the standard from youtube and vimeo. We’ve collected...

Jun 15, 2010

51 good frontpage carousel design examples

We’ve explored the world of frontpage carousel slideshows and collected 51 great screenshot examples from web pages for your inspirational needs.

Jun 05, 2010

Designing for usability vs. motivation

Keeping your site usable is like keeping your home clean; it’s all about hygiene. It only becomes a problem if the hygiene...

Apr 11, 2010

Stalk your users: Clicktale, Userfly, and Mouseflow review (2010)

A new form of web analytics has appeared! Its one that records every keystroke, mouse movement, and click of your actual users...

Mar 01, 2010

Input contexts: switching from mouse to keyboard

When designing for efficiency in web application, an area that often gets little attention is the contexts of input. On most desktop...