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101 UX Principles – 2nd edition - Second Edition

You're reading from  101 UX Principles – 2nd edition - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in May 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803234885
Pages 454 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Will Grant Will Grant
Profile icon Will Grant

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface
UX Field Typography Controls Content Navigation Iconography Input Forms User Data Progress Accessible Design Journeys and State Terminology Expectations UX Philosophy Other Books You May Enjoy
Index

Don’t Invent New, Arbitrary Controls

These could be:

  • An isometric pseudo-3D wheel to choose the color of your car
  • A volume dial that you must click and drag up-and-down to “rotate”
  • A button you must click and hold for a few seconds to indicate that you really want to do this action

Just don’t invent them. As designers, we already have a rich palette of existing controls to choose from. If you’re thinking about making a new UI control, please stop and think about how hard it will be for users to learn yet another interface pattern. I promise you this—there’s already a way to do what you want to do.

However, every now and then, something new comes along that is genuinely an advance in UI. Back in 2008, Loren Brichter made a Twitter app called Tweetie, with a unique pull-to-refresh interaction. Pulling the view down would show “release to refresh” and releasing would show a spinner. The...

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