A great, but underused location feature on iOS is the purpose property of the CLLocationManager. So many apps ask for your location — give your users confidence in sharing their location by telling them why you need it! Example: locationManager.purpose = @“We’ll only use your location to show you local events nearby.”; You need to do […]
Usability Cramps [yoo-zuh-bill-ity kramps] n. are unpleasant, often painful sensations caused by unbearable unusable user experience mistakes v. usability cramping, usability cramped, why the hell did they do this? Form Labels That Don’t Select the Fields This one mega-stresses me out; when the text label next to checkbox or a label doesn’t select it when you click it: […]
Google: There are several noteworthy changes: The sizes of all the fonts and buttons were increased The “selected” item or item with the mouse over it is clearly highlighted The user can navigate intuitively around the page using D-pad up/down/left/right motions Additional padding has been added between all elements on the page Darker or slightly muted […]
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Unicorn — Universal Website Validator is a nice new validator tool from the W3C that runs their suite of tests on your site, checking for accessibility and standards compliance. Try it out for this site! — lots of CSS errors due to my use of vendor specific prefixes, which I personally think, used with caution, should be […]
Why can’t every app do this?
Mobile Web Programming have a nice list of official UI guidelines for popular devices, which is pretty cool as I can’t stand apps that don’t follow the expected design patterns. Have a look - UI Guidelines for mobile and tablet web app design They’ve missed out the Windows Phone 7 UI Design and Interaction Guide
By Ben Collier
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Posted in Android, iPad, iPhone, Mobile, Technology, UX
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Also tagged Apps, ipad, iPhone, samsung, usability, user interfaces, web app
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