January 2011
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iBART: Actions vs. Options
The iBART iOS app is a great example of the do’s and don’ts of creating the look and text copy for your actions and options. What we have here is effectively a web form with select inputs, where the options are displayed on a second page. ”Show Trips” is effectively a button or an input of type submit. But as you can see from figure one, that distinction is not made very...
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Tweetie vs. Twitter for Mac: A UI Oversight
A couple days ago, Twitter released the long-awaited update to Tweetie, the Twitter client for Mac OS X later acquired by Twitter. Tweetie 2, rebranded as Twitter for Mac, fixed some outstanding issues like the inability to delete tweets or mark tweets as favorites. But there were also numerous changes to the interface, beyond the more obvious visual differences, and this is where I started...