Understanding Density Independence in Android
A comprehensive explanation of how Android handles devices of varying screen densities, and how to optimize an application to best... more »
IFML: The Interaction Flow Modeling Language - New OMG standard
The Interaction Flow Modeling Language (IFML) has been adopted as a standard by OMG in March 2013. IFML is designed for expressing the... more »
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Who nailed the principles of great UI design? Microsoft, that's who
A 12-year-old MSDN article still rings true -- and provides excellent guidance when JavaScript may be giving us too much to play with
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The Raspberry Pi JavaFX in-car system (Part 1)
A write up of the start of my project to connect a Raspberry Pi to my car and then display and track both interesting and useless data as I drive.
Crawling AJAX Web sites using HTML5 pushState support - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 30
Now that both Google and Bing support crawling sites that use HTML5 history pushState, developers are free to use it in AJAX based Web... more »
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Responsive website design cheatsheet
This post looks at common screen sizes across different devices and provides helpful guidance on supporting them with responsive web... more »
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Map Icons Designer for Google Map API
Map Icons Designer is a set of 200 Map icons in PSD Vector Shape & PNG format. They can be used as Google Map Icons, Location... more »
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Browser Zoom Effect using WebRenderer
We are often asked how our clients use WebRenderer in their projects. There are thousands of different use cases our ingenious clients... more »
When Agile meets Angular and UX-led development
This is where your User eXperience (UX) developers are active within a dev-team, pushing the experience, behaviors and interactions.... more »
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CSS3 Menu Tutorial: Beautiful Blue Menu (Very Easy)
This is CSS3 tutorial and I am showing how to create a simple, but modern and stylish menu with CSS3 and HTML5.
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Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail Final Version Released and Available for Download
Ubuntu 13.04 with codename “Raring Ringtail” has been released and announced by Ubuntu Team. It comes with a number of improvements in... more »
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Show ListView as Drop-down, an Android Spinner Alternative
Our code for today will give us an alternative to using the Android spinner.
Best practices for accessing Android widgets in view classes
This blog post discusses best practices about how to access UI widgets in view classes.
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Modal dialog (or popup) fired from Android widget example
Android widgets API provides only a limited subset of the functionality one usually finds available in Android activities. When we need... more »
How to Use Large Background Images to Improve User How to Use Large Background Images to Improve User Experience
Background in web or app design can be an active real estate rather than a solid one color or pattern place holder. Using background... more »
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Creating Rich Clients with Apache Pivot
An introduction to the Apache Pivot framework with examples for creating rich clients either programmatical or using xml templates.
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Designing UX for Shopping apps – Windows 8
Most of the Apps like ebay, amazon, ocado etc have very simple and clean UV design which highlights the items or the content. Usually the... more »
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