The success of a product’s interface was dependent upon how well the designer understood 2 parties: the human using it, and the capabilities of the machine on which the software ran.
Here’s my fashionista grandma with my grandpa’s 1974 Benz.
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A common problem in apps is when active elements have active areas the size of the content.
For example, a small text at around 12px will be easy to miss when tapped. Apart from this, it presents anxiety to the user that he/she might miss it when it needs to be tapped.
The solution is simply increasing the size of the active area thru Padding.
See the Pen Increasing the Active Area of FB Likes and Comment by Brian Dys Sahagun (@BrianSahagun) on CodePen.
GWT stands for Government Web Template and I applied to be a trainor for its WordPress version of the template.
I still have to attend a week-long training to complete the accreditation.
Wish me luck!
<a> packs a solid punch when it comes to the world of web.
It can contain information and most of all it is a point of interaction.
You tap it, you click it, you do something to it and it responds.
So it is very important that links, buttons and any active area (clickable, draggable, or can be interacted with) on your web product (websites and webapps) is padded or has enough area to be easily interacted with.
How to pad elements? Simple. Add padding and dimensions (width and height).
Here’s an example:
See the Pen Padding by Brian Dys Sahagun (@BrianSahagun) on CodePen.
Here’s another usage wherein the visual element is actually small but the active area is large enough for pointing devices. You may imagine this as a toolbar icon the size of an ant but the surrounding area is clickable.
See the Pen Padding and Framing by Brian Dys Sahagun (@BrianSahagun) on CodePen.
In the example above, you will notice in the CSS tab that I included Framing. Framing is simply wrapping an element in a <span> or <div> for the purpose of styling it independently from the surrounding elements.
Here’s another example of Framing and Padding a link with fixed dimensions:
See the Pen Padding with Fixed Dimensions by Brian Dys Sahagun (@BrianSahagun) on CodePen.
See the Pen Padding and Framing Example 1 by Brian Dys Sahagun (@BrianSahagun) on CodePen.
See the Pen Padding and Framing Example 1 by Brian Dys Sahagun (@BrianSahagun) on CodePen.
And finally… a light at the end of the tunnel!
Republic Act No. 10557 – An Act Promoting and Strengthening Filipino Design
Implementing rules and regulations of Republic Act No. 10557, an act promoting and strengthening Filipino design, providing for the purpose a national design policy and renaming the Product Development and Design Center of the Philippines into the Design Center of the Philippines and for other purposes.
