Reading Time – 6 min Tooltips are a great way to provide additional information to your mobile website visitors without taking up too much space on the page. But on mobile, you have to carefully craft the UX. When used…
Reading Time – 2 min It is a common design question: should designers use white text on a black background or the opposite? The answer, of course, is that it depends on the situation. In this article, we will explore…
Reading Time – 6 min Infinite scrolling is a popular UX pattern that can be seen in a variety of online applications. It allows users to scroll through a large amount of content without having to click through pagination links.…
Reading Time – 2 min We’ve all been there before: trying to type in a phone number on our mobile devices, only to realize that the number is formatted in a way that is not compatible with our phone’s keypad.…
Reading Time – < 1 minute If you’re designing a user verification or validation flow, you might have asked yourself what the best approach is when it comes to confirming user’s email address: sending an email confirmation link, sending a…
Reading Time – 2 min The cursor is not a hand pointer because the button is not a link. The button is an element of the page that you can click on to perform an action. When you hover over…
Reading Time – 3 min If you’re designing the UX for a web or mobile application that contains monetary data for different locales, you might have questions about the differences in currency formats. Mainly, when to use currency codes vs.…
Reading Time – 2 min Most believe that it’s for the same reason that exterior doors open inwards – it has always been done that way. But there are several benefits that we should not overlook. The doorknob is a…
Reading Time – 2 min UX designers have introduced the delay before a tooltip shows up to make sure that the user actually wants to see the tooltip. The 300-500 millisecond pause is to ensure user intent is to see…
Reading Time – 2 min In dialog boxes, the ‘close’ button is usually used even if there is an ‘X’ icon on the top left/right of the window. In this article, I will explain how this redundancy affects UX and…