One or two key functions. Well designed apps master their core interactions. The best are unique and become associated with the brand itself. You could even call them branded interactions . Clear Clear ‘s primary interactions are adding and clearing to-do items. Swipes are the main gesture in Clear…

The top 10% of product managers excel at a few of these things. The top 1% excel at most or all of them: Think big - A 1% PM's thinking won't be constrained by the resources available to them today or today's market environment. They'll describe large disruptive opportunities, and develop concrete…

When Good Design Isn’t Enough Over the years, I’ve seen designers get discouraged because they worked hard to create a better-designed competitor to an incumbent’s product, and yet failed to get traction. The result can be the demoralizing, erroneous conclusion that design doesn’t matter. If design…

February 21, 2013 (Computerworld) A patent application filed by Google last year provides a detailed look at some of the metrics the company considers when ranking news stories and deciding how prominently to display them on its Google News page. The application, filed in February 2012 and published…

Why load time matters in #ux http://t.co/mbKglxgqlN

Hacker News - Tools of the trade, 2013 edition http://t.co/XW21y9Vx

Flat design is both hot and controversial in world of user interface. Microsoft led the charge to introduce it to the masses and many others have followed suit: LayerVault , The Next Web , and more . Many designers have been calling it a fad since early on, thanks in large part to the UX problems it…

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joelgascoigne: "Balancing Text for better readability" http://t.co/cgfHLqpO