User interface

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Save as Untitled-1.psd? Oops, no

It is 2015, and computers still suck. Here, Photoshop suggests saving a file as Untitled-1.psd

Autocomplete with and without selection

The inventors of classical autocomplete cleverly used text selection to denote the suggested word remainder

Stopping

When you cancel a Time Machine backup, it takes some time to stop

Ångström: the update animation

One of the objectives of the design of Ångström was getting the result as fast as possible. But we’ve confronted a problem with currencies

Three states of a website menu item

A website menu item has three possible states

Immediate feedback when data is unavailable

Immediate feedback is one of the core principles of good user interface design. But what if the data is unavailable for the feedback?

Spacing separates, lines join

People often draw lines to separate things. They should, instead, move the things apart

Guy English on UX

Guy English in Debug 37 on the term “user experience”

The stupid “Compose New Message” Mail.app menu item

Let’s say you’ve right-clicked the Mail.app’s dock icon and want to write a new mail

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