Instagram Made Me Rethink About Touch Targets I’m sure you might have come across numerous articles on the web that talk about why we need adequate touch targets for each interactive element on any touch-based interface. (Especially mobiles which have a relatively smaller landscape.) A ‘touch target’ refers to the area associated with an element that triggers the interaction when users tap […]
7 layout fundamentals for that oddly satisfying UI We all love harmony in our lives. Harmony of tones and hues, of perfect shapes and negative spaces. Be it in music, interior design, or on the dense pixel sheet of our workstations. Often times this harmony is disturbed by all-out arrangements of elements, essential or not, in tiny places. Resulting in claustrophobic or anxious […]
UX Writing: The Art of Designing Conversations A staggering 88% of online consumers are less likely to return to a site after a bad experience, and often, it’s the words that make or break this experience. Bill Gates once remarked, “Content is king,” and in the world of UX, this rings truer than ever. UX Writing isn’t just about filling in the […]
Hamburger menu | To use or not to use Even though it might seem like a contemporary design element but Hamburger menu is as old as our personal computers. It was designed by Norm Cox, design lead for the first ever graphical user interface made for Xerox Star. Since then Hamburger icon has become synonymous with menu and a way to make the screens […]
5 mistakes to avoid while designing tooltips Tooltip is a great UI pattern for user onboarding and feature discovery. But there is a thin line between useful and annoying tooltips. This post will help you draw the line. Your tooltips are either helping users by telling them about the features that are exclusive to your product or they are interrupting users in […]