2017.04.28 / industry
Erik Dietrich
KNOWORTH
只有想不到、没有做不到
2025-09-18 / User experience
WHEN APPLE FAILS AT UX DESIGN AND FASHION DESIGN, DO WE STILL CALL IT GOOD DESIGN? The Apple Watch, despite years of hype before it was even announced, appears to be flopping after all. It wasnt a good sign when Apple announced shortly before the Watch release that they werent going to be breaking out sales numbers. Now, a new report from third-party analysts Slice Intelligence not only show that Apple Watch sales are down 90% since launcha big deal, since it implies early adopters arent regaling more cautious buyers with glowing word-of-mouthbut also that Fitbit is outselling Apple in the wear[…]
by Mark Wilson
2025-09-18 / Prototype design
Without motion, there cannot be interaction. When you close a tab, it disappears from the screen: at this basic level, motion provides immediate feedback (which is crucial since vision is our dominant sense), but at a more advanced level, motion adds a layer of humanity and realism. Animation makes interfaces feel alive and truly responsive to the user. In the past, animations were a luxury mostly for Flash-based sites, but now almost every site uses CSS/Javascript/HTML5 animations ranging from simple sliders to more complex parallax scrolls. This isnt a bad thing in addition to looking nice an[…]
by Jerry Cao
2025-09-18 / Technology research
Prior to iOS9, you could only use spotlight to find apps by their name. With the announcement of the new iOS9 Search APIs, Apple now allow developers to choose what content from their apps they want to index, as well as how the results appear in spotlight, and what happens when the user taps one of the results. The 3 APIs NSUserActivity The NSUserActivity API was introduced in iOS8 for Handoff, but iOS9 now allows activities to be searchable. You can now provide metadata to these activities, meaning that spotlight can index them. This acts as a history stack, similar to when you are browsing th[…]
by Chris Grant