Month: November 2013

Categories
Software Release

New Watermark System for STG FolderPrint Plus

New Watermark System

For the latest version (4.09) of STG FolderPrint Plus I am trying a new watermarking system.

The old system (in the left, below) used a large graphic with Unregistered when printing. This didn't look good and has problem in some printers.

The new system changes the name of every 15th file in the file list to **STG FolderPrint Plus Trial Version**. Opening the file and other operations still work, and if you save, it will load with the right name, too.

They are currently going through A/B Testing (so any given install may have either version).

New Watermark System
New Watermark System
Old Watermark System
Old Watermark System
Categories
Book Review

Microinteractions:Designing with Details – Book Review

MicroInteractionsMicrointeractions:Full Color Edition: Designing with Details, by Dan Saffer, talks about microinteractions – the small details of programs or sites.

These can be as small as a password verification widget that just tell you all the rules – instead of making you submit several times and mentioning one specific rule that you broke. Or Chrome's find tool showing every instance in the scrollbar. Every app is full of microinteractions.

The book goes through several interesting techniques on how to design these small details so that they are as useful as they can be. It also has plenty of great examples of smart microinteractions (some of which I have seen before, but never stopped to think about how clever they were before).

I really think reading this book will help my user interface design in the future. Very useful, short,  and recommended to app designers.

As a quick note – the ebook version (MOBI, from O'Reilly) looks great on Kindle on an iPad.