Fuse news
Video tutorial: introduction to WebView
A WebView is a browser window component that lets you load and display HTML, CSS and other web components inside of a Fuse app. You can mix this with OpenGL rendered Fuse components or native Android and iOS components. This video is an introduction to the WebView control where we go through some of its features and use cases.
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News
The npm Meltdown Uncovers Serious Security Risks
Earlier this week, as almost everyone reading this article knows, npm experienced a brief service interruption where npm install would fail for heaps of popular packages such as Babel and React Native, because somewhere deep in their dependency chains there was left-pad, a popular package that became unpublished. This event raises serious security concerns about how we’re handling dependencies in the JavaScript world.
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Design & UX
How Time Perception Shapes User Experience
Designing digital experiences comes with an ingrained obsession. The obsession of speed and performance. Amazon calculated that an increased loading time of just one second could cost it $1.6 billion in sales each year. Google loses about 8 million searches (and ad displays) when page speed decreases by just four tenths of a second — scary shit!
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Designing smart notifications
My phone buzzed. I was somewhere in Iceland. More than ten miles from my car and any other human being. Holding a phone with a dying battery. I turned it on to check Google Maps. “Spotify added 2 tracks to the playlist Afternoon Acoustic”. Perfect timing. A ping from Periscope: “@kayvon wants you to watch …”, two new emails in Mailbox, a new Twitter follower, an @channel ping on Slack. Nine notifications in total. None vaguely important when I was stuck in the wilderness with 2% battery, a volatile internet connection and a real need to load that freaking map.
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5 Essential UX Rules for Dialog Design
Dialogs are effective user interface element when you design and use them right. They can help your users complete reach their goals faster and easier. But dialogs can frustrate them when they’re done wrong. Knowing how to design dialogs will allow you to use them in a way that doesn’t annoy your users.
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Web Animation Past, Present, and Future · An A List Apart Article
Web animation has been exploding during the past year or two—and the explosion has been nothing short of breathtaking. It seems like every front-end development conference includes a talk about web animation. Last year at motion design conference Blend, Justin Cone of Motionographer called web animation the future. Things are moving fast. So let’s recap.
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Development
Jonathan Blow on Software Quality at the CSUA GM2 (Video)
CSUA alum Jonathan Blow talks about software quality at the Wozniak Lounge. A very special extra thanks to Jonathan for supplying the audio and slides so we could make the entire talk available.
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Workflow & Strategy
So your boss doesn’t believe in user research
This post is for anyone facing an uphill battle trying to convince an organization that design research is important. Know that you’re not alone: It’s common for designers working in startups and small companies to struggle to make space for research.
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Inspiration
Build Your User Base with These Human Behavior Hacks
People are unpredictable. And they are animals. These two tenets are often overlooked by startups trying to appeal to customers based on rational assumptions. Remember, people buy expensive wine they know nothing about. They place value on what their peers value whether they want it or not. They won’t shell out $2 for a useful app, but will take a $30 cab ride to get to work. And this behavior is only intensifying as more options become available faster.
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Designing the Icons for Flinto’s UI
What goes into creating a meticulous icon system? The Flinto team recently interviewed me about the design process behind producing all of the icons for Flinto’s user interface.
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Falling For The Wrong GUI
In the past year or so, we have witnessed the emergence of Conversational UI. It was always there, but recently more and more companies are adopting it as if it were the next best thing. Content is The King, but it is nothing without its Context Queen. Channeling services and content carelessly through a trendy UI might hurt businesses a lot in the cruel app-world of no-second-impression-to-make. It happened with apps “tinderized” for no good reason, and it might happen again with “conversationalized” apps.
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UX/UI to Make Your Product viral
The question is: What is ideal process of UX / UI to make the product viral into the world? We usually avoid talking about anythign ideal as it is rather contradictory category; however, we are keen to share our ideas about making products viral on the stage of UX/UI.
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Geeking out
Fermi Paradox by Mercury (a real-time rendered story in 64 kilobytes)
This massive production is not a video - it's a small executable file that displays graphics in real-time on your Windows PC. In fact, it's only 64 kilobytes. Watch the YouTube recording and be amazed.
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