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3 button designs that changed history

A simple button… that should be pretty easy to design, right? Well, as you will see, that’s not exactly the case. Even a simple button can prove to be a massive design challenge. The 3 examples below will show that the knowledge required to design buttons in the correct way has remained stable across 3 decades. And that’s the encouraging take-home point for you; the timeless knowledge you gain through taking IDF courses will help your career for many decades to come! ***  Copywrite content from -  https://www.interaction-design.org/ *** Button 1 (late 1970s): Press here to avoid a nuclear catastrophe! We’ll start with an example from back in 1979. The Three Mile Island accident was a partial nuclear meltdown that occurred on March 28, 1979, in Pennsylvania, United States. It was the worst accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history and was rated a “5” on the 7-point International Nuclear Event Scale. The following image shows the control room and the wealth of butto
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Apple IPad Air Vs Google Nexus 10 Vs Microsoft Surface 2

The fifth-generation Apple iPad is here and it is the first time Apple’s 9.7-inch tablet has gotten a huge redesign going more compact and modern to deserve a brand new name - the iPad Air. The big change have come to the outside, but there’s a lot improved under the hood as well, so let’s take a look. Apple has traditionally held the upper hand in tablet graphics and the iPad Air ups the ante in both CPU and GPU power with the Apple A7 chip. That looks to be the same chip Apple is using in the iPhone 5s, a somewhat strange decision since we’ve been accustomed to getting an Ax version of Apple’s chips with more graphical oomph in iPads. Not this time probably. In terms of the performance gain, Apple put it simple and clear: the new iPad Air has up to 8x faster CPU performance and 72x faster graphics performance in comparison to the original. The company is usually pretty spot on with those numbers, so we have no reason to distrust them. The new iPad Air is also 2x faster openi

IOS 7 / 5S Hidden Features Tips & Tricks

With hundreds of new features to boot, iOS 7 for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch is a gold mine waiting to be explored to its full potential. We have managed to discover some of the most lesser known features and tips which you should try right now. All set? Let’s begin. 1. Use Safari To See Tweets With Links / URLs Want to quickly see all the tweets in your timeline with URLs / links in them? Simply launch Safari, press the bookmarks button – the one that looks like an open book, obviously – then press the @ button on top. Boom! All the tweets with links in one place. You should be signed in to your Twitter account in Settings > Twitter in order for this feature to work. 2. Turn Parallax On / Off Don’t like the new iOS 7 Parallax effect on wallpapers – or 3D wallpapers as we would like to call them? Fear that it might be draining your battery? Simply turn it off. Go to Settings > General > Accessibility  >  Reduce Motion and turn it on or off according to your liking. 3. Ena

Touch ID - Fingerprint Sensor Security in iPhone 5s

Apple has posted a help document outlining the security safeguards it takes for the new Touch ID fingerprint sensor on the iPhone 5s. Here's the essence : Security Safeguards Every fingerprint is unique, so it is rare that even a small section of two separate fingerprints are alike enough to register as a match for Touch ID. The probability of this happening is 1 in 50,000 for one enrolled finger. This is much better than the 1 in 10,000 odds of guessing a typical 4-digit passcode. Although some passcodes, like "1234", may be more easily guessed, there is no such thing as an easily guessable fingerprint pattern. Instead, the 1 in 50,000 probability means it requires trying up to 50,000 different fingerprints until potentially finding a random match.  But Touch ID only allows five unsuccessful fingerprint match attempts before you must enter your passcode, and you cannot proceed until doing so. To configure Touch ID, you must first set up a passcode. Touch ID

IOS 7 Battery Life / Drain - Fix

Since iOS 7 beta 1 and I have been facing a very common problem that a lot of you facing it right now on your devices running on iOS 7, yes it is the drain battery life in iOS 7. Some users are finding that updating to iOS 7 seems to have reduced the battery life of their iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch devices. Anyone with a long memory will remember that we had your back when iOS 5 was causing chaos with iPhone 4S batteries a couple of years ago, and with iPhones the world over seemingly unable to hold a charge as long as they used to, we thought it might be time to offer one or two tips on trying to eek as many hours out of a charge as possible. As most of you know, iOS 7 contains a powerful graphics, new home-screen, dynamic wallpapers which decrease the battery life, and too many things in iOS 7 cause the drain battery iPhone users feeling… So right now if you have an iPhone running on iOS 7 and want to make it consume less battery, here’s some tips which will help you… 1)Turn Of

iOS 7 Keyboard Problem / Lag - Simple Fix

iOS 7 officially released this week to much fanfare, and users with an iPhone 4 or newer are able to get in on the fun. But many of you have been experiencing a ton of keyboard lag when typing messages and emails — something that I never came across during my experience. However, there’s an easy way to fix it, but it’s simply more of a temporary fix rather than a permanent one, since we’re hoping that Apple will hear about the bug and issue a small update to fix it sometime in the near future. The keyboard lag problem lies within iCloud, which is an odd place to have a keyboard lag issue, but many iPhone 4s users have sworn by this fix. Fixing iOS 7 Keyboard Lag. This fix works perfectly on iPhone 4/4s. If you’re experiencing lag and delays when typing out messages, try this: Open up the Settings app and navigate to   iCloud > Documents & Data :  Turn off : . That will open up another window where you’ll see a toggle switch. Turn it off if it already isn't (i.e., the circle

Best Voip Calling : Skype vs Viber. Which is Best ?

You have an Android or iOS portable device and you want to use VoIP on it for all its benefits. You are doing the right thing. But which VoIP app to install? There are plenty of them for Android, iOS and BlackBerry. All the lists will show that Skype is the most popular and Viber is among the runner ups. Besides, most of your friends, along with just anyone else, are speaking of these two. Which one to install on your device and which one to use? If you want my humble opinion, install both, as they don’t work exactly the same way, and they will serve you differently. But if for any reason you want to decide between the two, here is my assessment and comparison, based on the following criteria: ease of use, cost, popularity, mobility, data consumption, call quality, who you can call, and features. Ease of Use Both apps are very user friendly and straightforward to install. They work differently however. Skype requires you to use a username and a password. The username will be the i