So, this guy walks into an a web forum, and posts the ultimate Windows Desktop UI Concept. Based on the Microsoft’s Metro UI, which can be found on Windows Phones and Xbox 360.
The worst are sites that detect the iPad and serve phone-optimized web pages. The iPad display is small by PC standards, yes, but Mobile Safari’s scaling and zooming are so seamless that almost all desktop web layouts work remarkably well — and certainly better than phone layouts meant to look best on 3.5-inch displays… Worse than the worst, of course, are sites like the NY Post, that refuse to work on the iPad period, telling you that you need to download their app from the App Store. The iPad is a wonderful web browsing device. To ignore that, or treat it as a crippled browser, is folly.
(via wtf-mobile-web)
Meaningful Transitions is a design pattern library for animations in user interfaces. The transitions are documented in several categories to explain their purpose and how they work. Interesting, will you use it?
“In 1968 — three years before the invention of the microprocessor — Alan Kay stumbled across Don Bitzer’s early flat-panel display. Its resolution was 16 pixels by 16 pixels — an impressive improvement over their earlier 4 pixel by 4 pixel display.
Alan saw those 256 glowing orange squares, and he went home, and he picked up a pen, and he drew a picture of a goddamn iPad.
And then he chased that carrot through decades of groundbreaking research, much of which is responsible for the hardware and software that you’re currently reading this with.
That’s the kind of ambitious, long-range vision I’m talking about. Pictures Under Glass is old news. Let’s start using our hands.”
Great food for thought on what could be wrong with most “future concepts” we’ve seen recently: A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design.
Yesterday I posted two galleries for Mobile UI Patterns. Media Queries is another great site collecting websites that use media queries for Responsive Design.
For all the iOS/mobile UI designers out there. Some great overview website to get inspiration when you’re working on a mobile app:
- PTTRNS, huge overview of iOS User interfaces.
- Mobile UI patterns, smaller but more specific.
(via @leenx and @wspruijt)
