jQuery Mobile is a web application framework designed primarily for making sites interact well on smartphones and tablets. However, many of the features are useful for interaction across all devices. This series is focusing on the page transition effects included with...
On a recent project I was working on, the client had a web-site structure in mind where the user would navigate using a page swipe (on touch-based devices) and the pages would transition using a slide transition effect. It was pretty clear that jQuery Mobile already...
In late September Matt D. Smith posted a shot on Dribbble of a mobile interaction pattern that he was working on with the goal of improving mobile form usability. In the shot he’s subtly animating placeholder values so that they change color and...
Shared cross platform development is a concept that resonates very positively with all of us as programmers. It’s a nice outworking of the DRY principle, and seems like it would free engineers up to accomplish more. So why is it so rare that we do it? I...
Back in 2009 John Gruber wrote on DaringFireball.net that Twitter Clients Are a UI Design Playground and in that time it was definitely the case — there were new Twitter clients being released seemingly on a weekly basis, each with their own unique take on composing...
