Prototyping software is gaining popularity in all industries without exception. That is not so surprising. The development process, even for a small product, is often costly. In an effort to reduce process times and late reiteration cycles and, consequently, development costs, many engineers and ...

Using good wireframe software is now absolutely indispensable in web development. Wireframe software is becoming increasingly powerful and usually does not just provide pre-designed elements to facilitate the design process but also makes it possible to share prototypes and work on them together ...

The benefits of rapid user interface prototyping are not in question. Numerous articles and blog posts on the web explain the advantages of this process and how it aids the development of a website. In essence, user interface prototyping can be compared to laying the foundations of a project. Now...

Nowadays there is a great variety of interface design tools available on the market. Most of them have some great characteristics, but they certainly cannot satisfy every possible need. A web developer often has to make a choice depending on the requirements of a specific project. I will try to s...

The Internet is full of discussion on which tools are best for wireframing, whether low or high-fidelity wireframes should be used, what a good wireframe is like and what it should contain, how a wireframe should be created and so on. A good question that popped into my head, when I was new to wi...

There is a lot of discussion about whether or not creating a wireframe is a necessary step in web development. Some argue that a skillful and experienced web-developer can start immediately with the code. However, creating a website without prior wireframes is similar to setting up a company with...

Pick up any major book on usability and user interface design and chances are that it stems from the ethnocentric standpoint of western civilization. This is understandable considering western countries, case in point the...

As the computing landscape evolves to include an ever more sophisticated range of products and form factors the usability of the software and websites we use is continually being reviewed and refined. A crucial component of user interface design is usability. Simply put, a user interface design w...

Ever since the explosion of smartphones and tablets the state of notifications (in terms of execution and user interface design) has come under review. The user interface design of iOS notifications was much maligned as each notification would brin...

Apple has long been a trendsetter in setting user interface patterns. Considering that they popularized graphical user interfaces this is hardly surprising. From the beginning Apple has been pro-active in setting user interface design guideli...