Essays

Using science to make truly tappable user interfaces

You know that feeling even if you can’t name it — the mix of frustration and annoyance when you’re using a touch interface that you can’t quite get to work correctly. When you feel like you have to touch delicately just to trigger _that_ command that’s _right there_ in plain sight.

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How to fix a bad user interface

Hey! This is an excerpt from my book Designing Products People Love [https://www.scotthurff.com/book], which was published by O'Reilly in

Essays

How to design for thumbs in the Era of Huge Screens

After years of resistance, Apple’s iPhone 6 announcement last week officially signaled the Dawn of the Era of Huge Screens. And it’s going

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Steal these four lessons I learned while building an App Store featured app

There's a high probability you're working on a product that's going to be used on a mobile phone. And

Product Analysis

What product designers can learn from iOS 8's iMessage changes

If you build products for a living, there’s a lot to learn from iOS 8's iMessage changes — both on the user interface

Essays

How to build interactive prototypes

As product designers, it's not hard to see that our world is changing. We're transitioning from a Web-based point-and-click world to

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How to get animations out of your head

How you can communicate animations by watching cartoons or using tools like Quartz Composer, Origami, Adobe After Effects, and Keynote.

Product Analysis

How Secret uses your Address Book

Nobody wants to "follow their friends" anymore when signing up for mobile apps. In its place, the Address Book is beginning to reign.

Product Analysis

Facebook Paper's gestural hell

Facebook's release of Paper yesterday on the App Store breaks a string of uninspired releases [http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/30/5360358/

Essays

Content is the hero

As tastes change, technologies evolve, and the expectations of our customers shift, the way we design products is frequently subjected to the whims of the moment. We discover better ways to strip away the layers, the steps, the complexity — to deliver what our customers really want: The content.

Essays

Creators live on the fringe

The world's most successful creators unabashedly pursue their interests no matter where they go. They're unashamed about the subcultures, the ideas and the people to which they're exposed because of it.