user experience
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Firefox Will Automatically Zap Annoying Notification Prompts
Notification permission prompts are, to put it lightly, annoying as fuck. Just because you regularly visit a website, doesn’t mean you want them to bombard you with pop-up notifications. To combat the issue, Mozilla has decided Firefox 72 will automatically block such notifications, shunting them to a small icon in the URL bar.
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Why We Still Use QWERTY Keyboards
How intuitive are modern keyboards? It can take a beginner ages to really get up to speed with a QWERTY keyboard, and without some form of formal training, most people wind up becoming one-finger typists.
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Android’s Tips For Beautiful Icon Design Are The Opposite Of Google’s
Today, Android published a helpful blog post offering up a list of design tips for developers slaving away over new app icons, encouraging them to use shadows, textures and micro detail. We’re watching Android grow up into its own distinct visual identity — independent even from Google mothership.