So here's a fun but useless trick: mimicking Pokemon Go's battery saver mode on the web. For the few who missed the craze, Pokemon Go dims your phone's screen when you turn it upside-down. With the game being something of a battery hog, this can save you precious charge as you walk from one PokeStop| Thomas Park | On web development, interface design, user research, and all th...
iTunes 11 marks a significant departure from previous versions. While many of the changes are problematic (another post for another time), I want to focus on one positive: the expanding album effect. Similar to folders in iOS, this effect lets users to scan a list of items and open one up in place. This has| Thomas Park
A bad web form sparked a series of increasingly absurd designs for inputting phone numbers, including an incrementer, slider, random number generator, and very large table. Here's a good rundown of the solutions developers came up with. This is my take. It's a retro, skeuomorphic input based on the rotary telephone. Inefficient, but kinda fun.| Thomas Park | On web development, interface design, user research, and all th...
