With the release of iOS 14 Apple has changed their iconic date & time picker. This matters because back in 2007 – with the release of the first iPhone – a new way of picking dates and times has emerged that set the standard for the industry. Change is good and it should improve things, […]
Handling authentication is usually an afterthought, it is something that we just expect to work and rarely put in the effort to think it through. It should be simple, but the reality is that it comes with a lot of hassle for both the users and the company running the show. Failed logins, forgotten passwords […]
This is a much debated topic and while designers, developers mostly agree on when it is a good idea to use a navigational drawer and when not there are still a lot of mobile apps that rely on this pattern. It usually boils down to the fact that there is no place to put navigation […]
Filling out forms isn’t a thing that anyone likes to do. It just isn’t fun, it is something that we have to do, a means for getting something done, merely a tool. Let’s not focus on making it fun, let’s focus on making it as efficient as possible. Of course it should be aesthetically pleasing, […]
Michelle from Sydney, just started her new job at Awesome corp. She is a junior developer and gets her first assignment – improve the profile pages of the company mobile app. Eager to get started, she plans it all out and starts googling for some nice mobile UI controls. Looking at and trying a couple […]
Cards have become a norm for layouts. More and more companies have moved to using card layouts as their main hub for information. It is mostly because of their nature as compact design elements which can be easily wrapped around many types of content while providing a great user experience. So why cards? For content […]
Letting users register and log in is a common pattern that you’ll have to support for most apps and services. So the question is how to make it as fluid as possible. Let’s see why do we sign up for services? Ideally it is because if gives us more value, not because the maker of […]
A lot of times when we are looking for something we are using filters to speed up the process of getting to the desired results. Think of searching for apartments, houses for your next trip on Airbnb or think of filtering for items in multiple categories on Amazon, like Electronics and Gardening or just looking […]
When people start your app for the first time you want to help them see value as quickly as possible. The goal is to make people successful so that they stick around. Some might call this getting the users hooked, however I would call it making them successful. By definition, hooked means there is no […]
We are scheduling tasks, working with time fields on a daily basis. Need to set up a meeting, schedule a pick-up or plan for next week? Time entry is involved. If we think about time in a purely technical way, it boils down to a sum of ticks or an object with an hour, minute, […]