Don’t Be Afraid To Teach Interactions by Timoni West
Timoni tackles the tricky topic of teaching taps.
Discoverability can be hard, but that shouldn’t stop us trying out new interactions.
Tags: behaviour
Paris and the Data Mind - The Morning News
Craig writes about the hologram of his quantified self.
Why Instagram Works — Rainypixels
It’s all about the signalling.
Apple’s .mobi insanity - QuirksBlog
Wow. This might be the stupidest behaviour from a browser that I’ve ever come across: mobile Safari behaves differently depending on the top level domain of the site! Madness!
Mind you… it’s kind of poetic justice for having a ridonkulous .mobi domain in the first place.
Why the Little Printer is good – aka, someone on the internet is wrong, a response. |
Dan makes a very good point about Little Printer: it’s not the “printer” part that matters; it’s the “little”.
Gardens and Zoos – Blog – BERG
A lovely piece from Matt examining agency and behaviour in the things we surround ourselves with: frying pans, houseplants, pets, and robots.
These are the droids you are looking for.
Position: fixed revisited - QuirksBlog
PPK tests the various ways that mobile browsers handle position:fixed, complete with videos.
Responsive design and JavaScript - QuirksBlog
Unfortunately this article from PPK is flawed from the start: his first point (upon which all the subsequent points are based) is fundamentally flawed:
Right now responsive design is graceful degradation: design something for desktop and tablet, and remove stuff for mobile.
That’s not the way I’m doing responsive design. Responsible responsive design marries it with a mobile first approach (or more accurately, content first).
Coding Horror: Suspension, Ban or Hellban?
A nice little round-up of some techniques for dealing with trolls in online communities. I must remember some of this stuff for The Session.
The Science of Why We Don’t Believe Science | Mother Jones
A look at our inbuilt confirmation biases.
Experience Is What We Make It | UX Magazine
The Riegers are like emissaries from Planet Smart and we mere mortals are fortunate that they take the time to give us great articles like this.
Ben Bashford - Notebook of Things - Emoticomp
How does an object’s character and/or behaviour tie in with communicating its purpose in life, how it looks and how it should be used?
Shanzai! (Wired UK)
Bobbie documents the work of Jan Chipchase, currently looking into the design decisions behind counterfeit goods on sale in Shanghai.
Google Prediction API - Google Code
An interesting, if necessarily somewhat complicated-looking, API from Google: analyse your user's past behaviour to predict future outcomes.
Bulletproof HTML5 <details> fallback using jQuery · Mathias Bynens
A good example of the correct way to approach new interactive elements in HTML5 (the details element in this case): test for native support and then emulate with JavaScript if required.
Bruce Lawson’s personal site : HTML5 details element, built-in and bolt-on accessibility
An excellent piece by Bruce on why the details element needs to be in HTML5.
Cooper Journal: One free interaction
Small interactions that serve no useful purpose but are nonetheless satisfying. "Design this interaction such that: It's “free,” i.e. having no significance to the task or content, It's discoverable in ordinary use of the product, It's quick and repeatable (Less than half a second.), It's pleasant"
.CSV » group think
Emergence, network theory, behavioural science ...these things have been occupying my mind a lot lately.
John Resig - Most Bizarre IE Quirk
The title of "most bizarre IE quirk" is hotly contested, given just how many of them there are. But John has found a real humdinger here.
WikiHome - JotSpot Wiki (continuouspartialattention)
There's been a steady increase in talk around continuous partial attention (what with Twitter and all) so I here's the mother lode: Linda Stone waxing lyrical and expanding our vocabularies.
vanillart » A List Apart » Séparation Comportementale
A French translation of my most recent article for A List Apart.
Garrett Dimon / Front-End Architecture: AJAX & DOM Scripting
Garret gives an excellent, excellent round-up of the factors involved in the behaviour layer of front-end architecture (that's 'building websites' to you and me).
Behaviour : Using CSS selectors to apply Javascript behaviours
An excellent alternative to the inline cruft so common in most Ajax applications.