Measuring user perceived latency | Foursquare Engineering Blog. I’ve found one of the most important components of performance is the perception. Within reason, the actual performance doesn’t matter as much as how people perceive actions to be progressing and completing. This is about the user’s experience. Consider the two possible experiences of loading a web page. …
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Raising the Bar on Real
Apple Outsider » Real. We don’t need the deception of “photorealism” anymore. Despite the loss of these tricks, iOS 7 feels more real. The parallax effect conveys an entire living world under that glass, not just abstract pictures and icons. On the surface, iOS 7 looks like a refreshed UI, and nothing more. But digging …
Raising the Bar on Real
Apple Outsider » Real. We don’t need the deception of “photorealism” anymore. Despite the loss of these tricks, iOS 7 feels more real. The parallax effect conveys an entire living world under that glass, not just abstract pictures and icons. On the surface, iOS 7 looks like a refreshed UI, and nothing more. But digging …
Planning an App: Mobile User Experience and Interaction Design
This second part in the series, How to Develop an App, in which I walk you through some of the common steps involved with taking an app idea and turning into an actual product. This article is intended for anyone interested in exploring some high-level concepts that will help you think about how the app should …
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Catching Android’s Back Button in PhoneGap
This little bit of code is going to be useful to those of you developing a “singe page” app inside of PhoneGap. This applies to Sencha Touch (big fan), but doesn’t as much to jQuery mobile and jQTouch, as it’s a multi-page/navigation based event framework (it uses the app’s url string to do things like …
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Cool Download Page
I’m looking into new JS frameworks for frontend enhancements, and came across MooTools on recommendation from a friend. The framework has lots of cool features and seems pretty simple, but one thing I’m most impressed with is the download page. It acts just like the *nix package managers – allowing to you pick and choose …