Nobody Likes Links

It’s the Internet, but nobody likes links. People don’t appreciate it when you put a help link instead of providing help right away on the same page they need it. People don’t appreciate you linking to a vast article instead of putting the most important excerpt from it right into your post. People don’t like to … Continue reading »

Design for Solving Problems

Things and services are often designed for everybody to help get anything done. When you come into a supermarket, it offers you all kinds of products for all kinds of occasions. But sometimes people come into a supermarket with a particular problem, i.e. organising a birthday party.  They probably have little time and are afraid … Continue reading »

Screaming Interfaces

Some interfaces are like people. It’s generally good to imagine your product as a person or ‘persona‘, attributing them character and visual features of a particular individual. Some people are quiet, reserved and confident, some are energetic, outgoing and ‘colourful’… When interacting with a product, user gets involved in a dialogue with the kind of … Continue reading »

Precise Typo Highlight

Current spell-checking systems (at least the ones that I’m familiar with) highlight the whole word upon finding a typo in it: The system does know that I only misspelled one single letter. But instead of giving me the hint on just that it makes me read the complete word and then read the suggested word … Continue reading »

‘Share With a Group’ Concept

I often find myself in a tricky situation. Upon finding an interesting video, blog post or whatever, I’m presented with a ‘retweet’ or ‘mention on facebook’ buttons and realize that this post could only be interesting to the IT geeky people I know ;) and the rest just won’t get it and consider it a sort of spam (“I guess I’ll get Alex off my friends feed because he posts some weird updates every now and then…”). But I still want to share some fun piece of news or event that might be interesting to my school friends…. Continue reading »

Finger Pressure

Mobile devices designers often make use of ‘press and hold’ pattern for locking the keys, muting the phone or else. So do many industrial designers. This pattern is pretty useful when you have a limited number of keys (like in the mobile phone keypad example) or you want to make sure users don’t press the button unintentionally… Continue reading »

Phone Book Touch Navigation Concept

Although I’m not yet a touch-screen phone user, I already miss the quick way for finding people in my phone book by typing their name using keypad.

I came up with an idea of making people search a bit quicker on touch-screen phones. I wonder if anyone else had or already implemented the same idea… Continue reading »