UX

2025
05.05
Chapter Four. App Icons What could be simpler than just changing an app's icon, right? Designers draw a 1024x1024 icon with a margin, we understand that for adaptive icons we need …
android dev ux
26.04
Chapter Three. Fonts Historically, Roboto was hardcoded everywhere in our project. Now, instead of it, two new typefaces appeared: one for headings, another for everything else. It …
android dev ux
22.04
Chapter Two. Gradients An attentive viewer has probably noticed from the screenshots that our buttons are now not solid colors, but gradients. And in general, gradients are a very …
android dev ux
20.04
About the Redesign We launched a quite large redesign and rebranding of the "My Beeline" app to "Janymda". If you look only at the technical side of things, …
android dev ux
03.01
About Search Sometimes I make cautious forays out of the Google world to see what's going on with the competition. And if for some services in principle you can find a …
android dev ux
2024
03.10
New Google Play Console Design Google rolled out an updated design in the console yesterday. And it's some kind of disgrace. Let's look at the new sidebar menu. The first and most wonderful …
android dev ux
16.07
State Problems I find it hard to imagine a more painful problem in modern software than how much everyone doesn't care about state preservation in applications. My …
android dev ux
25.04
Icons in fonts I love this stuff. Thank God mobile somehow avoided this mania of stuffing icons into fonts. Although designers still mess up in Figma, and developers export …
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25.03
Compose and design systems And this is a very good article, if you ignore all the author's attempts to not offend anyone with words. But those are the times nowadays. Last year we …
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04.01
Smart People Discuss UX Birman's new podcast reminded me that I really love listening to smart people discuss UX. You know, that format when they say obvious things and get outraged …
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2023
05.10
Press Again to Exit Besides PIN code screens, which I've already written about not understanding their purpose, there's one more such feature, but a bit smaller. I'm talking about …
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23.01
UI/UX and Google I apologize in advance, it will be very hard to unsee this. The other day I saw this example with YouTube's homepage in Twitter and still can't get over it. …
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