UI Design Archives

UX/Design Practices, UX & Design

UI vs. UX Design – What’s the Difference and Why Does it Matter?

It took years to understand my role as a UX Designer. The distinction became clearer when I saw it in terms of goals, not deliverables.

React / Redux

Building a Terminal Wordle Game with React Ink

I recently decided to write my own Terminal Wordle and used Ink, a library that lets you build Terminal UI apps using the same patterns as web apps.

Project & Team Management

Benchmarking: What Is It, and How Should You Incorporate It?

I love benchmarking exercises. Benchmarking is a relatively quick and lightweight method to generate ideas, suss out bad concepts, and create alignment.

Development Practices

Are Dynamic Items Missing from Your Design Mockups?

Web app style guides always include basic items like error states for forms. Unfortunately, the more dynamic items are often not specified.

iOS / OS X

Animating Around the iOS Keyboard

Improve your app by animating parts of your UI around the iOS keyboard.

Objective-C

ReactiveCocoa & Complex User Interfaces

I had an opportunity to truly leverage the power of ReactiveCocoa when I found myself facing a complex user interface that took a multitude of user inputs.

UX/Design Techniques

Don’t Base Your UI on Your Database Design

Why you shouldn't create simple CRUD forms when your database has one table for users, one for groups, and one for companies.

Evolving the Industry

UX Lessons from Ford’s MyFord Touch Fiasco

I think there are plenty of lessons for the rest of us to learn from the way Ford introduced and then evolved the MyTouch system.