| Aug 13 |
Starry Morning Wallpaper |
1 Wallpaper
Brighten up your day with some happy little stars! Using the word “little” might be doing this a disservice with the widescreen version being a whopping 2560×1600!
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| Aug 12 |
Touchscreen Button Dimensions and Spacing — Hell If Phi Know |
When it comes to touchscreen buttons, size plays an important part in usability. ISO and ANSI standards recommend making them .75″ (3/4″) square, and this is reinforced by a Wright State University Department of Psychology study which showed that .75″ buttons were most effective at maximizing both …
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| Jul 29 |
Making Pots – Personally and Professionally Rewarding |
When our touchscreen designers are between project assignments, they’re busy making pots. Yes, pots. Pots, in our case, are simple interface design concepts. We started calling them pots after reading about an interesting experiment mentioned in the book “Art & Fear” by David Bayles and Ted Orland. Briefly, here’s …
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| Jul 15 |
Labeling Touchscreen Interfaces |
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a user interface needs real words to clearly indicate what the user needs to do. The words we choose are as important as, if not more important than, the graphics that frame them. Here are four simple rules you can apply to instantly improve the usability of your …
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| Jul 8 |
Optimizing Graphics for 16-Bit Touchscreens |
Designing a touchscreen interface can take a lot of time and hard work. Then you put it on the touchscreen and the colors shift and band. Yuck. Shifting is where the color on the touchscreen is different from the intended color. Banding is where you see abrupt changes between shades of the same color instead of a nice …
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| Jul 3 |
Making a Menu Interface for a Fantasy-Themed iPhone Game |
We created a tutorial for our friends over at Psdtuts+ titled “How to Make a Menu Interface for a Fantasy Themed iPhone Game”. Psdtuts+ is a Photoshop tutorial site that receives over 1.2 million monthly visitors and publishes some of the best tutorials on the net. We are honored that they asked us to create something …
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| Jul 1 |
High Quality Room and Location Icons (+1 Free) |
The Ozone Icon Set is a gorgeous photo-realistic set that supplies you with a large variety of room and location icons for use in your projects. This much-requested set provides great touchable targets and adds color and visual cues for ease of use. …
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| Jul 1 |
Design Your Touchscreen Interfaces in Photoshop in True Life Size |
When you’re designing a touchscreen interface in Photoshop, what you see onscreen is often a very different size than the way it will actually appear on the touchscreen display. This is problematic when you’re trying to size and space all the elements of a user-friendly interface. Fortunately, there is …
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| Jun 8 |
Guifx v2 Transports Labeled Font |
58 Symbols
Based on Guifx v2 Transports, this TrueType font (TTF) has labeled icons which improves usability. A keyboard map of all symbols is included.
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| Jun 4 |
Guifx Skin for DVR Remote iPhone App |
Two of my favorite gadgets are my iPhone and my TiVo Series3. DVR Remote, by Stutsman Software, is an iPhone app that controls compatible TiVo boxes over your wireless network using telnet commands that were originally written to support control systems like Crestron and AMX.
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