Selection anchoring and undo on a Mac

A text selection not only has a beginning and an end, but also an anchor. It is whether I started selecting from the beginning or from the end

The hover and click should match

This principle seems obvious, but there are too many interfaces that violate it. Thus, a blog post

Group checkbox setting

Say you have an interface with a column of checkboxes

Redesigning Hawaii missile alert user interface

A couple of weeks ago Hawaii residents got a shocking alert on their phones

Reachability by overscrolling

There is an accessibility setting on the iPhone called “Reachability”. When you enable it, you can double tap the Home button or swipe down the Home indicator on the iPhone X to make the screen content

Feedback first

Here is my talk from FDConf, Minsk about feedback in the user interface

UI Museum: Turbo Pascal 7.1

All screenshots for this post were made by Rakhim Davletkaliev

Is iOS scrolling modal?

Someone has tweeted this and got several retweets

UI Museum: Norton Commander 5.0

All screenshots for this post were made by Rakhim Davletkaliev

Stopwords in the user interface

These are words that usually signal problems with the user interface