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...
With the era of the humble unstyled and unscripted input field behind us, there's increasing variety in how monetary inputs work on the web. And this inconsistency can lead to big mistakes. Take two cases from the same company. PayPal has you input money amounts by the cent. To input fifty dollars, you type 5| Thomas Park | On web development, interface design, user research, and all th...
One feature that's often overlooked in iOS is adding webpages to your homescreen. You even get a nice retina icon if the webpage author designates one. Naturally, my mind went to how this feature could be used for a prank: Replace legitimate app with fake. The fake looks exactly the same, but takes you to| Thomas Park