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Functioning Form is a blog about interface design. That is to say, it is where art and technology emerge as experience, where message and medium meld, and where interactions are useful, usable, and enjoyable.
In the context of interaction design, the user experience design process, and Web applications, Functioning Form explores themes like Visual Communication; Information Density vs. Visual Simplicity; User Friendly vs. User Empowerment; the next generation of graphical user interfaces; and successful unions of engineering and art, of emotion and logic, and of function and form.
Luke Wroblewski
LukeW is an internationally recognized Web thought leader who has designed or contributed to software used by more than 600 million people. He is currently Senior Director of Product Ideation & Design at Yahoo! Inc. where he leads the design of the world's most accessed Web page (Yahoo.com) and many other popular products including My Yahoo! and Yahoo! Buzz.
Luke is the author of two popular Web design books: Web Form Design (2008) and Site-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability (2002). He also publishes Functioning Form, a leading online publication for interaction designers. Luke is consistently a top-rated speaker at conferences and companies around the world, and is a co-founder and former Board member of the Interaction Design Association (IxDA).
Previously, Luke was the Lead User Interface Designer of eBay Inc.'s platform team, where he led the strategic design of new consumer products (such as eBay Express and Kijiji) and internal tools and processes. He also founded LukeW Interface Designs, a product strategy and design consultancy, taught interface design courses at the University of Illinois and worked as a Senior Interface Designer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), the birthplace of the first popular graphical Web browser, NCSA Mosaic.
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Functioning Form: Interface Design
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This design pattern is a great example of using an ordinary user interface control as a learning opportunity for users. While Apple's Magic Mouse control panel contains the kind of standard checkboxes, buttons, and sliders you might expect in a settings panel, it also features clear and concise videos outlining the key functions of the mouse.Simply mouse over the label or control you are intereste...
11-06
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Functioning Form: Interface Design
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There's been no shortage of digital media players that aimed for "iPod killer" status: Samsung's P3, Microsoft's Zune, Sony's X-series Walkman, Creative, Sandisk, and so on. But with over 220 million sold, Apple's iPod still has a 73.8% marketshare of digital music players. So while a lot of different companies have tried to "kill" the iPod -none have succeeded.But in the second quarter of 2009, t...
11-05
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Regardless of how social relationships are modeled in online software (be it community, group, 2-way/symmetrical, or 1-way asymmetrical models) more attention seems to result in increased contribution -to a point.To illustrate, when an average Twitter user gets to 1,000 followers, they move from 3 daily updates to 6. That number rises to 10 average daily updates with 1,750 followers (source). Conv...
11-05
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More often than not, the mobile experience for a Web application or site is designed and built after the PC version is complete. Here's three reasons why Web applications should be designed for mobile first instead.1. Mobile is exploding Though the Web has been accessible on mobile devices for years, today's smart phones are driving huge use of networked applications and Web content. Consider that...
11-04
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Functioning Form: Interface Design
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In her keynote on Internet Trends (PDF), Mary Meeker forecast that next generation social networking mobile platforms will drive unprecedented change in communications and commerce. The current growth of mobile social networking seems to support her thesis.The second-most popular Web activity for mobile users to engage in on a daily basis is accessing a "social networking site or blog." Last Janua...
11-02
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