Improving Interface Design Through Simple Modules

Putting your efforts on simple design modules can bring out some dramatic changes to the Interface Design. Working on button designs like Login, Menus, Toggles etc. can provide users with a pleasant website experience. So, let us explore some small bits of delight that actually add flavors to the user interface.

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As far as ‘form fields’ are concerned, no expert designer would design forms containing too many fields unless it is associated with any document or essential information of the user. Instead of seeking too much of information from the user, it is better to provide a simple form to fill in the name and email on the landing page. Some of the other features of making forms look interactive are:- 

• As soon as field in the forms are clicked, submit button can be initialized
• Clicking on the enter key should automatically take the pointer to the next field without the need of pressing Tab.

 

Compact Login

Compact Login button refers to the login fields that do not occupy a lot of space and provide option to skip the login when needed.

• Adding light grey colors with white background have better impact as a login form
• A good idea is to include progress bar on the login page that shows the progress of the form fill up.

 

Material Design Text Input

Material Design has become so much popular in recent design trends and so is its importance in interface design. When it comes to filling up the text in the forms, the best practice is to design interface using Material Design.

• Form looks well designed and complete. As soon as user starts typing, fields turn into a blank form in progress
• Material Design input also lets user navigate through different parts of the form by making use of sliding windows.

 

Sliders And Toggles

•  Budget Slider- JQuery budget slider is a very unique interface module that is an alternative to the flat design and offers 3D slider to represent progress and fills color as the slider move forward or backward.

• Pure CSS Toggles-  These toggles are bit different from sliders as they do not show progress bar straight forward. Instead, the progress is shown in 180 degree view just like flipping the page of the books.

 

Navigation And Menu

• Filter Menu:- It hides itself when the menu button is clicked, alternatively close button expands from circle’s center to outer circle where filter options are arranged.
• Pure CSS Drop Down Menu- This module is a very good attribute to any non-javascript interface. It makes use of the menu labels to toggle an animation that represents the sub-menu.

All the modules described above can improve the interface of the design by adding some extra attributes to the interaction design. It is not essential to make use of all the modules in every design but getting familiar with such really cool applications can definitely bring about an appealing visual to the design. We at Oodles Studio, make use of our long term expertise in working on interface design based projects to comply with varied needs of our clients.