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Redesigning macOS Settings app

Almost a year in, I am still struggling with the macOS Ventura Settings redesign. It’s not just the form design, it’s also the readability of the layout, the lack of visual cues in so many places and the confusing grouping. Overall, the Settings app seems like a bit

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Some thoughts on the Humane device demo

I was going through Humane’s Ted Talk video snippets, and while most of it was a demo whose merits can only be judged once people spend time with it, some points stood out to me. The most compelling parts are when its use as an interface for artificial intelligence“

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The Laziness of the Home Tab

If you use apps and websites like I do, you’ve probably seen a “Home” tab on many them. It’s usually meant to tell the user that it’s the first screen in a number of screens. It’s where you start your navigational journey. I’ve been thinking

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Michael Tsai - Blog - Unreliable MacBook Pro Keyboards

Michael Tsai – Blog – Unreliable MacBook Pro Keyboards This is a lesson in Design for Repairability. While Repairability isn’t a term often associated with modern day consumer electronics, over here repairable keyboards would have done a good deal of good to the users who would otherwise need to

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Designing for iPhone X

Vidit Bhargava Over the ten years of iPhone’s existence, Apple’s star product has gone through many iterations and has changed it’s screen size and aspect ratio at least of couple of times. Each time the iPhone’s screen changed, it opened up possibilities for newer interactions and

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How Venice Beach influences Snapchat’s design

Vidit Bhargava On a recent vacation to Venice, California, I had stumbled upon Snapchat’s old headquarters on Venice Beach. It was a white house with a blue rooftop that just blended in with the rest of the neighbourhood’s building. Also, I found the unique vibe and culture of

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Wireframing on Numbers

Vidit Bhargava One of the things I’ve learnt in UI Design is, that the faster you get through the Steps to actually ‘generate’ prototypes, the better you can focus on more pressing matters like testing them in the real world. And one of the most important aspects of any

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The State of Augmented and Virtual Reality Headsets

Vidit Bhargava For the last few weeks I’ve been reading a Neil Stephenson’s Snow Crash. Snow Crash is based on the premise of a futuristic Metaverse, an internet like platform created for a virtual reality headset. This is something that’s very close to reality

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Designing Pro Apps

INTRODUCTION Computers have almost always had professional applications. They’ve always been in the workplace. But with Touch Screen Tablets like the iPad there’s been a massive shift in terms of the target audience for the applications, and it’s been more in the direction of

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Designing with Accessibility

Vidit Bhargava Credit: Apple Inc. Accessibility features are extremely helpful for the disabled. These features enable them to use the devices that they love, without letting their disability to get in the way but they are equally important to those who are perfectly abled. A lot of times these features

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This is why Hamburger Menus aren’t the best way to do Navigation. You don’t know where you are, where else you can go or What will you find once you reach there. They only save a little bit of space.

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Android Lollipop: Design Preview

Vidit Bhargava A few months ago, I had a look at Google’s material design guidelines. My First Impressions, plainly put, are that the new design certainly has an aesthetic appeal and is a much better documented guideline than the previous ones which included the ill-fated Halo theme but at