Every mobile platform has its own style guide with preferred ways to create common user interface elements, so how do you stand out? The two main ways: Color and type. A millions apps and websites use blue and green and …
Tip #18: Give feedback to the user
If a user mousesover something—if they place their mouse cursor on it—and nothing happens, then the user will assume that nothing it’s not clickable. Similarly, if something doesn’t look different when it’s selected, then the user can’t know that it’s …
Tip 15: Keep things clean
You can use reds—you can use greys. You CAN use anything under the sun, but it’s often best to keep things nice and simple. Say you’re making cards in your design—should you use red and blue backgrounds, forcing you to …
Tip #14: Use curly quotes when quoting
There are two different marks that look pretty similar, hatch marks (' & ") and curly quotes(‘, ’, “, & ”) Hatch marks show feet: 4'; and inches: 11". Curly quotes show contractions: can’t; and quotes: “No way, I’m not …
Tip #13: Set leading (line height) to around 1.2 x point size
Leading is basically another way of saying line-height. And line-height describes the total distance from the bottom of one line of type to the bottom of the next line of type. Here’s a little graphic that shows what I’m talking …
