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2012

Styling Button Links With CSS3

2011

Competing With an Archetype

The Unstoppable Carousel

Timeless Fashion

The Language of Things

Skeuomorph, Pt III

Skeuomorph, Pt II

Faster Signup With Primed Accounts

Poll: Ideal Font Size

Are You Designing Around These iPhone & iPod UI Issues?

Should Web Designers Code?

Logarithmic Sliders

The New Windows Explorer UI

Usaura v2: Tests Dashboard, Test Chains, Preference Tests and More

A Better Way To Visualize Click Times

Introducing Usaura, the Fastest Way to Run Click Tests

Clever Terminals

What Makes a Good Designer

On CSS Galleries

Designing UX Exchange

Pure CSS Slide-out Interface

Architecture v. Web Design

Improving Highlighters

Against Instant Notifications

New: UsabilityPosts Jobs

The Redesign Trap

OS X Lion Interface Tweaks

Please Stop Disabling Subpixel Rendering

A Call for LESS to Embrace Responsive Design

Simplify Your CSS With LESS Elements

Introducing Yattery: Social Media Marketing Made Easy

Why Nobody Uses Opera

The Dark Side Of Usability

2010

The Design of Everyday Things

Design is Choice

A Motive For Bad Design, Pt II

False Simplicity

A Motive For Bad Design

The Embodiment Of Function

A Frame Within a Frame

The Elusive Footer

A Mild Case Of Borderitis

Pull Down to Refresh

It Isn't Minimalism

Don't Forget The Whitespace

CSS Hover Controls On the iPhone

A Symptom Of Clutter

Attachment to Physical Media

The Value of Good Design

Focus On Goals, Not Actions

The Laws of Simplicity

Blogging Simplified

What's in a Name?

E-books are Books

Rocket Surgery Made Easy

Flash Is Never Coming To the iPhone

Introducing the UsabilityPost Forum

2009

Make It Difficult to Read

The Web Is the Perfect Content Delivery Channel For Tablet Readers

Search-dropdown Hybrid Box

Google Wave's Clever Way Of Saving Scrollbar Space

Cooking a Website

A Better Distribution Channel for Desktop Apps

3 Things Phone Manufacturers Should Get Right to Beat the iPhone

Mouse Cursor Affordance

Everyday Usability Heuristics: Visibility Of System Status

Contextual Interviews and Ethnography: Two Different Types of Home Visits

Should There Be a Unified Set of Styles For Web Interfaces?

OpenHallway -- A New Usability Testing App

How To Observe the User and Tap Into the Experience

Introducing the Themes Boutique

Using Deceptive Design Elements to Emphasize Product Features

The 1Kb CSS Grid, Part 3

Introducing LESS: a Better CSS

Reinventing the Color Picker

Dynamic Contrast Management

The 1Kb CSS Grid, Part 2

Web Browsers Need a Social Layer

The 1Kb CSS Grid, Part 1

How to Listen to the User and Hear the Experience

Using Input Fields Fit For Purpose

8 Characteristics Of Successful User Interfaces

Safari 4 Beta Review

Good, Better, Best

Quince: A User Interface Patterns Explorer

IconDock -- A Simpler Shopping Cart

Wrap Your Presents Well

Zoomable User Interfaces

The Proper Way to Draw Rounded Corners

Making Wait Times Feel Shorter

Feedback Army Review

Why We Still Use Paper

Comment Form Design

Announcing Logospire

2008

A Slip in the WordPress 2.7 Dashboard Interface

Usability of the iDisk Web Interface

Pressed Button State With CSS

Take a Step Back to See the Big Picture

Interface Features

It's the User Experience, Stupid

Scalable Content Box Using Only One Background Image

In UI Design, the "Obvious" Solution isn't Necessarily the Best Solution

De-clutter Your Interface With Hover Controls

The Pitfall of Adding Keyboard Shortcuts to Web Apps

Is Your App Responsive?

How People Really Use the iPhone

Wikipedia — Time for a Redesign?

CSS Tip: Improve the Look of Your Headlines Using Letter-Spacing

Should Arrows be Placed Before Link Text or After?

The iPhone App Store Buy Button -- Foolish or Brilliant?

Does Your Website Suffer From These 7 Usability Mistakes?

Categories vs Tags

CSS Tip: Remove the Mac OS X Glowing Blue Outline for Custom Styled Input Fields

Experience vs. Function -- a Beautiful UI is Not Always the Best UI

Usability Post Featured in Alltop

Fighting Perfection

How Usable is Your Copy?

Manage Focus Effectively Using Contrast

Forget the Wireframes, Throw Away Your Boxy Layouts -- Design BIG!

A Guide to Choosing Colors for Your Brand

Use Whitespace to Indicate Relationships Between Content Elements

The Function of Rounded Corners

Usability Tip: Automatically Select Form Input Field on Page Load

Using the Scrollbar to Display Information

Typesetting UI Elements

Do UI Aesthetics Matter?

Utilize Space Efficiently for a Better UI

Synchronized Style: Fusing the UI and Hardware Aesthetic

Drop IE6 Support -- Give People a Reason to Upgrade

Usability Tip: Turn Inline Links Into Padded Blocks for Larger Clickable Areas

Thoughts on Chrome

Usability Tip: Use Verbs as Labels on Buttons

UI is the Killer Feature

How to Add Drop Shadows to Menus or Windows with CSS

Using Shadows to Improve the Usability of Menus and Windows

Don't Copy a Design — Steal It

5 Steps for the Perfect Tabbed Navigation Menu

Using Light, Color and Contrast Effectively in UI Design

CSS Trick: Improve the Quality of Bold Text in Safari with text-shadow

Context Over Consistency

How to Use Photoshop Color Profiles for Web Images

10 Great Free Icon Packs for Your Website or Web App