Using a Hamburger Menu for Conversion is Bullshit
Last week, an article entitled, “How Hamburger Menus Can Increase Your Conversion Rate” started making the rounds. It seems to keep showing up in all the usual places that help me keep ...
Quick Thoughts on Apple’s HomeKit
In my most recent post, I posited that for the Internet of Things to truly come into its own, app designers will need to take the reigns away from industrial designers. I also mentioned that ...
Design, Internet of Things, Web
App Designers & the Internet of Things
Like the rest of the design community, lately I’ve been obsessing over the “internet of things.” So far it’s pretty damn disappointing. We can all see the potential: a not-so-far-off ...
A Short Zeldman Story
On a rainy day several years ago, I was all set to meet a prospective client. I had been in NYC for a little less than a year, and this was ...
Back to the Lowly Email Newsletter
Admittedly, I’ve never really given the email newsletter a chance. I know there’s a special brand of web nerd who’ve always loved them, but for me they always seemed so archaic. ...
“From the Web to the iPad” is the New “From Print to the Web”
After running into some odd design patterns on the iPad lately, it seems worthwhile to write a few things about how I view designing interfaces for the iPad versus designing ...
Apple, Apps, Design, From the Desk Of, Technology, UX
At Least Twice As Complex
There’s a nice little observation tucked into John Gruber’s critique of the new Twitter app over on Daring Fireball. “A tab view within a tab view is often a bad ...
Design, From the Desk Of, UX, Web
How Can Entire (Design) Industries Get the Web So Wrong?
Architects As a designer, I have deep, almost religious respect for great architecture. There’s something awe-inspiring about it that I haven’t found in any other design discipline (or art movement, ...
Designing for iPad’s Safari Browser
Sometimes, someone just needs to say it out loud: “Designers really need to hear the following, loud and clear: The iPad browser is fully capable. It doesn’t need you to ...