User interface

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Marco Arment on UI stability

In ATP Episode 439 Marco Arment had a good speech on UI stability, I even took time to write it down

Typing your password over a button

Apple came up with this interface behavior that would seem strange before

Automatically Close Tabs in mobile Safari

Mobile Safari has a feature that automatically closes tabs. It reveals the ill-conceived nature of the interface as a whole

One spinner is enough

In user interfaces, a spinner is a normal indicator of thinking or loading. However, the modern web is often build from blocks that could be loading independently

Resizing Mac Windows

If you start dragging a window’s border, the window will start to resize horizontally or vertically in that direction

How to trim text the right way

Recently, I wrote about Facebook’s crappy handling of long posts: it’s trims the text randomly and loses your reading position when expanded

The broken “See more” in Facebook

Pinpointing individual problems with the Facebook’s user interface is odd, as everything there is done with contempt for the user

Selecting country to enter your phone number

Here is an example of a dumb user interface. You can’t just enter your full phone number, you have to select a country from the list first

May I notify you

Notifications often appear at the wrong time: while I am trying to finish a sentence or to listen to my colleague on a call

Fuel low; here are petrol stations

When running out of fuel, not only does my car light an LED, but also offers to show the nearest petrol stations using the built-in navigation

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