This week, I’ve hand-picked a stack of links that’ll save you time, challenge your thinking, and sprinkle a bit of inspiration onto whatever you’re building (or procrastinating).
Inside: a look at physicality in UI, why templates might be ruining your UX, fresh CSS gap styles, tips for printing web pages that don’t look like a dog’s dinner, and a clever approach to animating navigation bars.
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iOS 7 introduced an entirely new design language for iOS. Much was written on it at the time, and as with any dramatic change the emotions in the community ran quite high.
Overreliance on frameworks as universal solutions rather than adaptable starting points undermines critical thinking and threatens our field's intellectual rigor.
↕️ The “Serial Position Effect” Can Boost Navigation Usability
Users are most likely to remember and interact with the first and last items in a menu or list (the primacy and recency effect). Placing key actions at the top or bottom of navigation can increase their discoverability and use.
Usually, we think of responsive design in terms of making sites adapt to different viewport sizes, but what about being responsive to different mediums too?
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