Shopify Wallpapers

It’s Canada day on July 1st so I made some stuff to decorate your monitors. Versions: iPhone, 1920×1200 and 2560×1440.

Avoid using warnings

One of my favorite interface principles is Aza Raskin’s never use a warning when you meant undo. Take a gander at his full article which eloquently argues for the demise of the warning dialogues that plagues almost all user interfaces.

Let me give an example using the Shopify interface: When we delete a product collection in Shopify this is what we get:

This interface could improve by ditching the maladroit  dialog box and give the user the option to revert their changes.

2 more violators of the undo principle include: Grooveshark and Google Mail…

Grooveshark: When you are listening to music and close your tab in Safari you get  a message confirming you want to leave the page. Why doesn’t Grooveshark just remember what I was last listening to? Worse case scenario is the user accidently closes the window and just goes back to Grooveshark and continues listening to whatever they listened to last.

Gmail: When you start writing a message and leave the page without sending it Google gives you the beautifully written message pictured below. I know Gmail autosaves my drafts and I’m positive I didn’t send the message because I didn’t click send, so why does this dialog exist?

3 New Shopify Themes

Shopify has an awesome theme contest on right now where you can win a bunch of design books and get money for your themes.

To kick off the competition I finished up 3 new Shopify themes: Birchwood, Threadify, and Dark Alder.

If you want to make your own check out this tutorial I wrote a tutorial for creating a theme from scratch.