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Avoiding The Uncanny Valley of User Interface (blog.codinghorror.com)
one of the great strengths of web applications is that they aren't bound by the crusty old conventions of desktop applications. They're free to do things differently -- and hopefully better. Web applications should play to their strengths, instead of attempting to clone desktop applications.
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Who Killed the Desktop Application? (blog.codinghorror.com)
All the innovation in user interface seems to be taking place on the web, and desktop applications just aren't keeping up.
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Nice prompt by the Hangouts app based on language used in the conversation. #ui
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Glad I'm not the only one annoyed by the new larger font in the Chrome address bar: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=276946
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Hacked together a quick bookmarklet so I can get a keyboard shortcut to reply to people' #indieweb notes!
The trick is that you can add a custom search engine in Chrome (right click on the URL bar and click "edit search engines" to see how many you already have!) but instead of defining a URL pattern, you can put in Javascript!
Now once I'm on a URL I'm replying to, I type "r" in the URL bar and it jumps over to my site! The result:
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iToast for iOS (cocoacontrols.com)
If you develop already for Android, then you know what it is so you can skip to the next section. For the others of us: a toast is a spécial way to display 'non intrusive' message to the user. Those message are displayed on a configurable place on the screen and they disapear after a configurable time interval. The way they appear is similar to the way the Growl app (on mac do). A toast is a view containing a quick little message for the user. The toast class helps you create and show those. When the view is shown to the user, appears as a floating view over the application. It will never receive focus. The user will probably be in the middle of typing something else. The idea is to be as unobtrusive as possible, while still showing the user the information you want them to see. Two examples are the volume control, and the brief message saying that your settings have been saved.
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WhirlyGlobe for iOS (cocoacontrols.com)
WhirlyGlobe is an interactive 3D globe toolkit for ios. It handles the rendering and data manipulation side and strives to maintain a constant frame rate. It's pretty and it's quite good. It can be used to display a few data points on the earth or as a center piece for an earth based app.
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JTRevealSidebar for iOS (cocoacontrols.com)
An iOS objective-c library template for mimic the sidebar layout of the new Facebook app.
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iRate for iOS (cocoacontrols.com)
A handy class that prompts users of your iPhone or Mac App Store app to rate your application after using it for a while. Similar to Appirater, but with a simpler, cleaner interface and automatic support for iOS fast application switching.
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Expandable Input Toolbar for iOS (cocoacontrols.com)
Expandable Input Toolbar in the style of the iPhone messages app
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DDBadgeViewCell for iOS (cocoacontrols.com)
A UITableViewCell subclass that has a customizable badge view on the right. With fast Quartz 2D path drawing and blending, one can use this with very large data set and still keep great performance when scrolling.
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Center Button in Tab Bar for iOS (cocoacontrols.com)
As seen in Instagram, Path, DailyBooth, and other apps, place a button in the center of a UITabBar to let the user perform some action that is central to the application's purpose.
