“Forgot password” UI Pattern
An illustration that even a simple forgotten password form can harbor refinements that improve the user experience.
Commentary
14 Jun 2010
I just stumbled on the best "forgot password" implementation I've seen on event registration site Amiando.
For the vast majority of people who will buy Android phones, "open" is an illusion because now that Google has abandoned their direct sales model, Android firmly puts the final decision making power for the overall experience of the phone back into the hands of the traditional carrier/vendor relationship that ruled the space before the iPhone came out. Apple, unlike other phone vendors, is capable of going toe-to-toe with the carriers and is willing to do so to fight for a better user experience. That's why we don't have AT&T branding all over our iPhones. That's why we don't have the mandatory 15-second spiel before voicemail that Verizon users have to suffer through. Apple is at least an equal partner with the carriers who sell it. Most of the other phone vendors, to put it bluntly, are the carriers' bitches.
Those of you that follow my blog may know that I suggested an initiative at the end of last year called Twitterformats – lightweight client-side APIs that extend Twitter to solve practical problems. The idea was to allow anyone the ability to extend the capabilities of Twitter without relying on Twitter on implementing functionality.
(If you need a quick refresher, you can read more about Twitterformats in Jamie Riddell's article on The Next Web: Twitter Formats, a way to truly evolve Twitter.)
Show off your plumage with Kiwi
Kiwi is a beautiful Twitter app for Mac. What sets it apart from other apps is that you can create your own themes for it to customize it to your heart's content. This is great news for Feathers users because it means that you can have your Feathers tweets display exactly as you intended them to by changing the display font to the one used in Feathers (Arial Unicode MS).
Feathers Kiwi Theme
The Feathers theme for the Kiwi Twitter clients makes your Feathers tweets display exactly as you intended.
I'm in shock right now as I woke up about half-an-hour ago to a tweet from Tim Sears alerting me that Feathers was being featured by Apple on the US App Store as New and Noteworthy!
I need your advice – those of you who have had apps featured by Apple – what should I do to really take advantage of this? Any and all ideas welcome!
Feathers featured by Apple as “New and Noteworthy” on the US App Store!
My iPhone app for Twitter, Feathers, just got featured by Apple as "New and Noteworthy" on the US App Store.