"When the Developer Must Design" Slides

Slides to my CodeStock and DevNexus 2016 talk - When the Developer Must Design - are now up at Speaker Deck!

• When the Developer Must Design slides

Websites Referenced: When the Developer Must Design

Websites referenced in my CodeStock and DevNexus 2016 talk - When the Developer Must Design - are listed below. 

CodeStock 2016 - July 16, 2016 - 10:20 am
DevNexus 2016 - February 17, 2016, 10:30 am

Andrew Malek
https://twitter.com/@malekontheweb
http://www.malektips.com/

Invisible Design:

• Nobody Wants To Use Your Product
  https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/01/nobody-wants-use-your-product/
• Great Designs Should Be Experienced and Not Seen
  https://articles.uie.com/experiencedesign/
• 10 Reasons Why the Best Design Is Invisible
  http://designshack.net/articles/graphics/10-reasons-why-the-best-design-is-invisible/

Too Many Fonts...

An example of why too many fonts can be confusing - a re-imagined* Spotify on iOS.

 

Don't think this is so bad? Check out this quote and article from Nigel French at Adobe Create Magazine:

"A good principle to live by, whether you’re new to typography or a seasoned pro, is to keep it simple. Or to put it another way, don’t use too many fonts. Just as mixing too many colors on your palette will likely result in mud, mixing too many fonts on a page will probably result in a confused message."

* - for demonstration purposes only - not the original app's choice of fonts!

Responsive Design and Development "Gotchas" Slides

Slides to my Connect.JS 2015 talk - Responsive Design and Development "Gotchas" - are now up at Speaker Deck!

• Responsive Design and Development "Gotchas" slides

Websites Referenced: Responsive Design and Development "Gotchas"

Connect.JS 2015
October 17, 2015, 10am

 

Andrew Malek

https://twitter.com/@malekontheweb
http://www.malektips.com/

 

Android Device Fragmentation - OpenSignal

http://opensignal.com/reports/2015/08/android-fragmentation/

 

Content strategy

• http://www.usability.gov/what-and-why/content-strategy.html 
• http://alistapart.com/article/audiences-outcomes-and-determining-user-needs 
• https://uxmag.com/articles/content-strategy-and-ux-a-modern-love-story

 

“Hamburger icon: How these three lines mystify most people” - BBC

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31602745

 

Hamburger menu studies

• http://exisweb.net/menu-eats-hamburger
• http://conversionxl.com/testing-hamburger-icon-revenue/
• http://www.peakusability.com.au/articles/mobile-ux-part-1-menu-burgers-and-navicons
• http://www.adammcfarland.com/2013/10/24/responsive-mobile-ui-split-test-icons-or-text/

 

“Should “gender” be required, or is there a better way to collect this information?” – StackOverflow

http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/19923/

OpenID and social network signon

• Google Sign-In: https://developers.google.com/identity/
• Facebook Login: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login
• Yahoo – via OpenID: https://developer.yahoo.com/openid/
• OpenID: http://openid.net/

 

Bootstrap: Show Password

https://github.com/wenzhixin/bootstrap-show-password

 

jQuery Password Strength Meter for Twitter Bootstrap

https://github.com/ablanco/jquery.pwstrength.bootstrap

 

Jared Spool on surveys and 10-point scales

https://twitter.com/jmspool/status/584001051415683072

 

Notes on creating surveys

• https://www.uie.com/brainsparks/2015/09/24/stop-doing-survey-research/
• https://www.uie.com/brainsparks/2010/12/26/19-lessons-from-united-airlines-on-how-to-build-a-crappy-survey/
• http://www.nngroup.com/articles/keep-online-surveys-short/

GDS Design Notes – Asking for a date of birth

https://designnotes.blog.gov.uk/2013/12/05/asking-for-a-date-of-birth/

 

Notes on rendering birthday UI

• http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/5119/
• http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/41059/

 

IP Location and Geolocation

• http://ip2location.com
• http://www.netimpact.com/
• http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Geolocation/Using_geolocation
• https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/geocoding-reverse

 

Identify card type from card number – StackOverflow

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5911236/identify-card-type-from-card-number

 

MailCheck: Reduce user-misspelled email addresses in your forms

https://github.com/mailcheck/mailcheck

 

Gestural Interfaces: A Step Backwards In Usability

http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/gestural_interfaces_a_step_backwards_in_usability_6.html

 

App User Retention Improves in the U.S., but Declines Internationally – Localytics

http://info.localytics.com/blog/app-user-retention-improves-in-the-us

 

Projections of the Size and Composition of the U.S. Population: 2014 to 2060

https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2015/demo/p25-1143.pdf

 

A Study of Novice Older Adults and Gestural Interaction on Smartphones

http://mobile-accessibility.di.fc.ul.pt/papers/mobacc2013_submission_6.pdf

 

Users’ Perspective of Smartphone Platforms Usability: An Empirical Study

http://ijssst.info/Vol-15/No-3/data/3857a379.pdf

PointClear - Optimizing mHealth Apps for Older Adults: 8 Strategies

http://blog.pointclearsolutions.com/2014/06/optimizing-mhealth-apps-older-adults-8-strategies/

Affordances and Design – NNG

http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/affordances_and.html

 

Mobile Onboarding: A Beginner’s Guide: Smashing Magazine

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/08/mobile-onboarding-beginners-guide/

UX Study: Teaching a user how to use your app: Richard Kim on Medium

https://medium.com/@cwRichardKim/ux-study-teaching-a-user-how-to-use-your-app-1c77e0e1271c

 

Affording Horizontal Swipes on Touchscreens

http://uxpatterns.org/affordances/affording-horizontal-swipes-on-touchscreens/