Archive for December, 2008

Basics: Disable or Hide?

Posted by dhammy0110 on December 15th, 2008 filed in UX Interaction Design

Back to the basics here.  I found this topic on a recent email thread agreat reminder as to why one would disable tools or menu options versus hide them.  Of courseit always comes down to context, but the bottom line…
Disable controls that are dependent upon the currently selected tool, mode, or other selection.
Hide options that [...]

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Del.icio.us Bookmarks for December 2nd through December 9th

Posted by dhammy0110 on December 9th, 2008 filed in UX Interaction Design, mobile / iPhone

Microsoft – Going Beyond – interactive timeline good, except for the sound
hcdtoolkit – toolkit for mobile UX design oriented toward emerging markets
iPhone PSD Vector Kit | Freebies | Smashing Magazine
Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit v1.0 (Yahoo! Developer Network Blog)
teehan+lax » Blog Archive » iPhone GUI PSD

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Del.icio.us Bookmarks for October 27th through December 1st

Posted by dhammy0110 on December 1st, 2008 filed in UX Interaction Design

Feedback Army – super cheap, fast usability testing – using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk distributed labor platform
RapidRabb.it – Online, sharable, rapid prototyping tool
Latest Interfaces | Konigi – lots of design patterns and examples of web interactions
The Knowledge Navigator concept piece by Apple (1987) after Alan Kay
NuevaSync – Over the Air Synchronization

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