user-experience – Page 2

Client-side “Feature Tour” (tutorial/instructional) overlay system? [closed]

February 6, 2023 by Tarik

Thanks to Johnson for giving me a good term to Google with (sans ridiculous false positives). Here is a list of “feature tour” solutions I’ve found: Joyride | http://zurb.com/playground/jquery-joyride-feature-tour-plugin Intro.js | http://usablica.github.io/intro.js/ Hopscotch | http://linkedin.github.io/hopscotch/ Crumble | http://blog.tommoor.com/crumble/ Pageguide | http://tracelytics.github.io/pageguide/ Bootstro.js | http://clu3.github.io/bootstro.js/ I’m sure there are more out there. These solutions can make … Read more

Setting background colour of Android layout element

October 16, 2022 by Tarik

You can use simple color resources, specified usually inside res/values/colors.xml. <color name=”red”>#ffff0000</color> and use this via android:background=”@color/red”. This color can be used anywhere else too, e.g. as a text color. Reference it in XML the same way, or get it in code via getResources().getColor(R.color.red). You can also use any drawable resource as a background, use … Read more

Save icon: Still a floppy disk? [closed]

October 2, 2022 by Tarik

The floppy disk icon has become the standard for saving files. It’s a highly recognizable icon and there’s no reason to change that. Consistency between applications is a wonderful thing. I suspect that over time the icon will grow more stylized and less like an actual floppy disk once people start forgetting what they look … Read more