eyevariety

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by eyevariety 12y ago
The conclusion is a total let down. "Dust off your drop shadows and gradients, and introduce them to your flat color buttons and icons. Do your absolute best work without feeling restricted to a single aesthetic." I feel like the
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by eyevariety 14y ago
Irrespective of his concerns as an individual- from a pure usability perspective: any waiting of any sort that does not signify some valuable piece of information is negative to user experience. We have seen time and time again that web sp
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by eyevariety 14y ago
The UX is broken, but adding the start button would only break it more. I don't have much confidence in their design team, but I think they know there is no returning to the start button.
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by eyevariety 14y ago
Do you believe Samsung has benefited from Apple's R&D?
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by eyevariety 14y ago
This is my understanding too. And I think the Metro look is going to perform particularly poorly when it is isolated to navigational components on a webpage while content follows whatever other visual form. IMHO the real MS interface isn't
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by eyevariety 14y ago
Kudos to Next Web for celebrating interface innovation. The payment process looks super slick.
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by eyevariety 14y ago
Good perspective!
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by eyevariety 14y ago
It is ADD for sure, but there is a measured dopamine response to this type of interaction. The easiest way to understand the history of any object is through a timeline, so when appropriate I do think you are going to see a lot more of it.
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by eyevariety 14y ago
Sage advice. It took me longer than it should have to learn this.
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USAToday.com new design and iterations - 'iPad Inspired'(businessinsider.com)
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by eyevariety 14y ago
Brilliant!
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by eyevariety 14y ago
I meant the big app developers. Its a throwaway comment for sure. I was just trying to encourage the original idea of the post while taking out its legs by pointing out how most of these don't look as good as they do on iOS.
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by eyevariety 14y ago
The apps look great for sure and it seems like the big dogs are prioritizing Android. Many of these examples are in fact on both platforms, and overall they look better on iOS than the android version. On Android they look like a modified,
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by eyevariety 14y ago
I love how Hacker News has a bunch of pissed of nerds that are mad that a website advertising music plays said music.
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Hootsuite Buys Seesmic for the Users not the Tech(techcrunch.com)
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by eyevariety 14y ago
What a brilliant name! We need a tinfoil chrome extension.
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by eyevariety 14y ago
Thanks for the detailed response, and like a good UI junkie you are into the emotional aspects of the user experience. I think the ambient data of the tiles is so seductive. I love that the OS and Apps feel merged- I'm sure that has slowed
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by eyevariety 14y ago
Thanks for that- very interesting because IE seems to have parity on the desktop- MS must be really working hard.
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by eyevariety 14y ago
Did he use grid paper to do the schedule? Excel is really not very skeuomorphic. One variation on being more skeuomorphic would be that it came with various templates one of which looked like a typical work schedule sheet, but leveraged
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by eyevariety 14y ago
Its not that a simpler shape isn't easier to process, its that its harder to infer purpose when there is so little information (like in the case of Metro). A button is something that needs to be 'pressed' so it should look like it can be- a
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by eyevariety 14y ago
Bashing skeuomorphism is the easy way out. Non physical affordances don't come easy, and like it or not our brains are trained in a world of 3 dimensions made of matter. Dieter Rams built things around their functional components, the mate
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by eyevariety 14y ago
What are your favorite things? How is the HTML 5 rendering? How is the wifi? What are its biggest faults? What do you feel like you are missing? I am very curious. I am a long time Apple fanboy and a general UI junkie. Android still f
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by eyevariety 14y ago
The ipad app switching/closing/task bar gestures are pretty natural though. See them once and they are unforgettable.
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by eyevariety 14y ago
Great little post and totally true. Related, the Airplay implementation is a good example of restraint in interaction design. Airfoil does much more, but it isn't as natural or easy to grok as Apple's implementation.
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by eyevariety 14y ago
The twitter clone is a proof of concept. A better description would be that its a paid social graph designed to be used by third party apps. Just like Facebook apps or apps that use twitter to sign on, app.net can be used as that identity
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by eyevariety 14y ago
Daniel Pink's "Drive" is a manifesto around this idea. I think all craftsmen should read it.
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by eyevariety 14y ago
I know from years of optimization and measurement. Everything matters. Google/ Matt Cutts like to state otherwise, but SERPs prove otherwise.
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by eyevariety 14y ago
Not saying that it goes back to semantic classes or anything like that, but if aligning alt tags, creating hierarchy with headings, being smart about the order of the code vs the order it appears- all those things are going to require 'cod
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by eyevariety 14y ago
Have you ever built a webpage? There are many optimizations that simple software just isn't going to come through on. Have you ever SEO'd a site? That is something that certainly takes semantics into account and does so in a way that affe
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by eyevariety 14y ago
Gimme gimme! So tired of flipping between programs during my process because none of them do it well. Omnigraffle just hasn't evolved enough.

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