Categorie Interaction Design
Why the iPhone causes you to make spelling errors
Do you ever wonder why you are making all those spelling errors on your iPhone? Or rather – why the iPhone keeps inserting them for you?
This is because the auto correct function has a few obvious flaws in the way it works: It’s in the wrong place, it has the wrong trigger and it is not designed for a touch interface.
Sign in with oAuth where Twitter.com is blocked
In two days, Twitter will start to shut down basic authentication on their API. The only way to connect to the API will then be by using oAuth. This will force anyone who wants to use a Twitter web app to give that app access to their account. Every app has to redirect them to Twitter.com to do that.
However, in some places Twitter.com is being blocked – by censoring governments or overly zealous system administrators. That means that users in those places can no longer use Twitter. But as an app developer, you can quite easily build a workaround for some of those users.
Usability detail bij Twitters Tweet Button
Sinds gisteren kun je bij artikelen een Tweet Button plaatsen: als de bezoeker daarop klikt krijgt hij een twitter boxje met een door jou bepaalde tekst erin. Dat is handig, maar waar ik pas echt enthousiast van werd was een klein detail: slechts een deel van de tekst is geselecteerd.
How to create a bulletproof Registration and Sign In flow
Have you ever decided to leave a website when you Log In attempt failed? Or have you ever stopped during a registration process because it was confusing? I certainly have.
You don’t want to lose your prospective customers before they’ve even got started. We have to make your Registration and Sign In flow really fool-proof.
This post offers you a couple of flowcharts which cover every step in a typical Registration and Log In process. To make things easy, I have added a set with example screens in html for every case you might encounter. And for those interested, I’m explaining the underlying thoughts.
Forever Free: Mailchimp leaves no room for doubt
Have you ever found yourself wondering exactly what a “free account” meant? That’s the kind of friction you really want to avoid in a signup process. Mailchimp’s pricing page does a great job at taking away those kind of doubts. They’ve simply called their free plan The Forever Free Plan. You can’t get any clearer than that.
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