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.

SXSW bound

SXSW is a massive interactive/music/film conference in Austin Texas and I’ll be there babysitting the other lads from Shopify: Harley, Daniel, Cody, Tobi, Toby and the other Mark.

I’m already meeting up with a few awesome chaps and I can’t wait to see how SXSW compares with Future of Web Design (FOWD) and Future of Web Apps (FOWA).

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?