Forgiving interfaces

For the last few months, I have been working on Artemis, a calm web reader. I use Artemis to follow my favourite blogs and websites. In designing Artemis, I had a few goals in mind: I want Artemis to be part of a web exploration journey, so every web link takes you to the author’s websites. I want the interface to make me feel calm, not...

This article is the eleventh edition of the Advent of Patterns series. In this series, running from December 1st to December 24th 2024, I will document one design or programming pattern I have noticed recently. Read more about this series. An inline function tray is an interface pattern that lists functions that you can apply to information in a...

This article is the tenth edition of the Advent of Patterns series. In this series, running from December 1st to December 24th 2024, I will document one design or programming pattern I have noticed recently. Read more about this series. When I am working on a web page design, I think a lot about the reading experience. How readable is the text?...

This article is the eighth edition of the Advent of Patterns series. In this series, running from December 1st to December 24th 2024, I will document one design or programming pattern I have noticed recently. Read more about this series. Software used for creating or publishing documents or files commonly implement version histories. Version...

This article is the eighth edition of the Advent of Patterns series. In this series, running from December 1st to December 24th 2024, I will document one design or programming pattern I have noticed recently. Read more about this series. Applications that aggregate or have lists of information commonly show previews of information in an overall...