In modern web interface design, no other principle has been heralded and pushed onto us as much as the concept of user-centered design. User-centered design tells us that we should do everything we can to make our user interfaces as easy to use and as intuitive as possible. However, a big part of designing user interfaces that are easy to use also involves figuring out what things should be a bit more difficult to to use. It’s a counter-intuitive... 

We encounter user interfaces everywhere in our daily lives. When I look at interfaces, they always inspire me and I hope that they will inspire you too. Here are 40 creative interface designs from DeviantART for your inspiration. 1. AdvancedUI: Status Screen By ~ z-design 2. Psyunit By ~ Pureav 3. Car GUI By ~ upiir 4. Red Alert Interface By ~ metalkid 5. DarkMatter: Subspace Remote By ~ skinsfactory 6. Quarian By ~ SmarTramS 7. Blade alpha... 

Google — it seems — is testing a new design today, demonstrating it to certain visitors of the site. This type of live testing is common (the process known as split testing ) to evaluate the efficacy of a new design. Could this be how Google will look soon? Check out some images comparing the new design versus the current design. Logo Google’s logo is larger and its colors appear brighter with the reduction of the…  Read More →

Our instinctive dislike for forms originates from having to fill out seemingly endless paper forms, many of which require a Master’s degree in Form Content Filling to understand and fill out correctly the first time. Unfortunately, in the offline world, getting some answer wrong would mean having to fill out the form in full and sending it again, usually days apart. Online, we have the opportunity to not only resubmit …  Read More →

User interfaces —the way we interact with our technologies—have evolved a lot over the years. From the original punch cards and printouts to monitors, mouses, and keyboards, all the way to the track pad, voice recognition, and interfaces designed to make it easier for the disabled to use computers, interfaces have progressed rapidly within the last few decades. But there’s still a long way to go and there are many possible directions... 

If there’s anything web designers learned from the past year, it’s that mobile web usage will continue to soar . Thanks to smartphones and social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook that promote on-the-go interaction with web applications, the amount of people using mobile devices to access the web has grown exponentially. There are over 4.5 billion mobile phones in usage today and it’s estimated that by the end of this... 

Rich-Text Editors, inline content editors, WYSIWYG editors – or whatever you want to call them – are web applications that enable users to enter, edit and manipulate alphanumeric characters while visiting your website. Wherever you have a form input on your site, chances are good that its usability could be improved with a Rich-Text Editor. For example, your comment form is a great place to provide users with the ability to customize... 

It’s a fact of life that when people hire a web designer, they don’t just want a website, they want a website that does something! There can be a world of difference between these two things. The “action” they need the website to take for them can be one of several common things: selling products for their business (an e-commerce site), generating sales leads, and/or providing free information in the hope that the visitor... 

Design galleries are a go-to source of inspiration for many web and graphic designers. While there are no shortage of gallery sites out there, a number of new galleries have been launched this year that stand out in some way or have proven to be useful for a specific type of design inspiration. In this post, we’ll feature 20 new galleries that may provide just the inspiration you have been looking for.  Read More →

Over the last few years, I have been slowly working on developing a series of PHP classes to handle Web forms.  Read More →

It’s no secret that beauty does not equal popularity in the App Store , but with competition tightening developers are no longer turning a blind eye to design. The heavies in game development have already dialed in the importance of a well-designed interface and their rankings in the App Store prove this point. This list shines the spotlight on some indie developers who you might not find in the top 20, but are shining bright in a sea... 

One of the sweet user interface enhancements provided by Apple’s iPhone is their checkbox-slider functionality. Here’s how to implement that functionality using the beloved MooTools javascript framework.  Read More →