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The UX of LEGO Interface Panels
George Cave takes a look at the UX of the LEGO Interface Panels These iconic, low-resolution designs are the perfect tool to learn the basics of physical interface design. Armed with 52 different...
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Enhancing User Experience With CSS Animations
Great talk by Stéphanie Walter (starting at 39:00): With practical examples, I show why certain animations work better than others and how to find the best timing and duration to build UI animations...
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HTML Forms: How (and Why) to Prevent Double Form Submissions
When double clicking a submit button your form will be sent twice. Using JavaScript you can prevent this from happening, but wouldn’t it be nice if this behavior could be tweaked by use of an...
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8 Tips to Make Your Website Feel Like an iOS App
Very nice video by Sam Selikoff in which he sets up a web manifest to make his site feel more app-like. Great production quality. There are some tweaks I’d suggest though: Fixate the header using...
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Avoiding tab styles for navigation
Adam Silver, who works at/with the fine folks at GOV.UK: Tabs should only look like tabs if they behave like tabs otherwise it can be in disorienting and confusing for users. Shown above is the old...
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“Yes or No?”— One Checkbox vs Two Radio Buttons
Great research by Sara Soueidan: If you have a question with a binary Yes/No answer, is it better to use one checkbox or two radio buttons? As per usual: It Depends™. The consensus however seems to be...
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Form Validation: You want :not(:focus):invalid, not :invalid
Update 2021-01-28: In case your form controls have the required attribute set, you’ll even want to use the more extensive :not(:focus):not(:placeholder-shown):invalid selector. See the update at the...
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:focus-visible Is Here
With Chromium 86 and now recently Firefox 85 supporting :focus-visible, it’s a good time to refer to this post by Matthias Ott: The :focus-visible pseudo-class lets you show focus styles only when...
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Fixing the Drift in Shape Rotations
Steve Ruiz recently noted that in many design tools a group of shapes would end up at a different position after you rotate them and then successively rotate them back. The problem here is that the...
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rci — A clever React Component for One-Time Passwords (OTP)
rci is a React component that ask for a one time password, in a pretty clever way. rci uses a single DOM input element, overlayed on top of plain divs for styling. Most other implementations of this...
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