Publications - 4ourth Mobile

There's nothing more terrifying than a blank page.

Especially if you are working with apps, you probably have some dialog, help document, request interstitials, or just status that refers to a “device.”

This is very work-in-progress as it is simply a slight cleanup of notes I have and have shared with various orgs I have worked for or with.

A modal, as an object, is not a thing.

People who know me, have read more than five words I have written, seen me present, etc know that I am all about global and universal design, but here and there I get called out for a moment as some out of touch midwesterner so sure, why not list out my c…

Notes from what I presented on 26 May 2022 at the UXPA-NJ monthly meetup.

Mobile devices are by far the most owned and used connected computing devices in the world.

When I started writing the latest book, Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces, I would regularly find an interesting topic or tangent that led far into the weeds, and had to stop myself from pursuing it too far.

I am often told I’m too negative, but I think I am progressive.

Principles exist at a higher level than any pattern.

Originally published on UXmatters March 5, 2018 but updated to reflect new trends and technologies.

TO: Pabini Gabriel-Petit, Editor, UXmatter CC: Everyone 13 October 2021 4ourth Mobile believes in designing products for everyone, without favor.

NOTE: This space is, finally changing for the better.

Everyone who likes my detailed heuristic gripes, I got a thing for you.

In my job as a UX design consultant, I work with any number of organizations—and often with their in-house designers.

My writing on process, methodology, and more.

In the last edition of Ask UXmatters, “Prioritizing Parts of a Design Project,” a reader asked what to do when you’ve come late to a project, find there’s no time or budget to make maximal UX impact.

UX teams are generally massively underfunded, and understaffed.

Greeking is a centuries-old term that refers to the use of placeholder text or images instead of including the real, final content in a design.

Regionalization means considering the entire context of people’s different needs in other parts of the world, not just hiring some service to change the display language.