#UI design

#UI design

When psychologist Paul Fitts published his 1954 paper on human motor control, he likely had no idea that his insights would one day guide the design of everything from smartphones to virtual worlds. Fitts conducted his experiments using simple physical apparatuses, such as levers, styluses, and lighted targets, to measure how quickly participants could move and point to targets of varying sizes and distances. These experiments were precursors to the pointing and selection tasks that would later define human-computer interaction.

Instead of only working with a handful of colors, you can create a whole palette of swatches at the same time so you can see if they look good together. Precise control of every shades/tints in each swatch rather than being limited by autogenerated colors. See which color pairs contrast as you edit so you can create a palette with built-in WCAG accessibility.

Design-to-code translation (quick prototypes) Once you craft a high-fidelity mockup, you need to turn it into code. Previously, you have either to wait for developers to do it or learn how to code and do it yourself. Nowadays you can simply send your design to Claude and it will code it. I typically use Claude to generate an HTML + TailwindCSS prototype from UI specifications or UI screenshots. Here is how it works. You attach a screenshot of the UI you want to craft and let Claude do the heavy lifting for you.

Meanwhile AI chat suffers from the same problem from command lines to Alexa - how can i remember what to ask? Only this time the problem is exacerbated by the fact that AI is capable of practically anything making the task less one of remembering commands but a creative one of coming up with great questions or delivering an interface to discover them and then wrapping the resulting prompts as buttons.

iPhone users have been baffled to discover a secret design element that has been hidden in plain sight for years. In a viral post on X (formerly Twitter), one user has shared their strange discovery about the iPhone alarm. When you set an alarm on an iPhone, it looks as if you are spinning a wheel with the numbers one through 12 written around the circumference. However, users have now discovered that this isn't really the case.

KelpUI is being designed to leverage modern CSS features and Web Components, while emphasizing utility, customizability, and simplicity in naming and specificity.

I've been doing this for almost 15 years now, and I can't tell you how much I love what I do.

To control the padding with <dl> <dt> <dd> tags, you can use CSS styles directly targeting these elements, specifying padding properties as needed.

Microsoft is testing a new double border style around the Bing Search box, which adds a unique visual element while keeping the auto-complete box unchanged.

Imagine you're building a house... You have walls, windows, and doors - each built separately, but designed to fit perfectly together. This is similar to how modern Frontend-Development works.

Ego can subtly infiltrate the creative process and derail the mission of designing for real people.

AI is reshaping UI design workflows, enhancing efficiency from concept to prototype through innovative tools that automate and streamline the design process.

Design tokens represent a fundamental shift in how we manage design decisions in modern software development. They serve as the smallest building blocks of visual design.