The Website of UX Designer Matthew Stephens

UX Design Versus UI Development :: UXmatters.

As someone who considers himself both a UX Designer and  a UI Developer, I found this article quite interesting. It’s nice to know that this “rivalry” isn’t just an inner struggle for me, but for alot of people in this field.

Web Design Criticism: A How-To – Smashing Magazine.

If you are like me and work as the lone designer in a company, it can be a really trying experience having to defend your designs to higher-ups. This is a really great article on both how to give and receive criticism on your work. I enjoyed reading it and took alot out of it.

http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1000

“Mobile Web forms tend to have significantly more constraints than their desktop cousins: mobile screens are smaller; connection speeds are slower; entering text is harder; and so on. As a result, it’s generally a good idea to limit the number of Web forms in mobile applications and sites. In situations where you do have to get input from people on mobile devices, radio buttons, checkboxes, select menus, and lists tend to fare much better than open text fields.

But constraints breed innovation and mobile Web forms are no different. The limitations of mobile devices have forced developers and designers to find new ways to make providing input faster and easier. Several of these innovations are now making their way back to the desktop and beyond.”