Late to the party, I know, but it's worth pointing this out, as an addendum to previous ranting. hoverIntent is a jQuery plugin that replaces the standard on/off hover switch with a delay, triggering...
From Summon Monsters? Open The Door? Heal? Or Die?, which discusses the declining value of blog comments and social news sites: A funny thing about these sites is that they know about this problem....
Tantek is fighting an uphill battle in his quest to rid the world of email. Email is ingrained, ubiquitous, and everywhere. Every person that regularly logs on to Hotmail or Gmail contributes to this...
Many of us are still conditioned to think of design frameworks in terms of grid systems, Swiss graphic design, and rigid corporate identity systems. The problems with these are similar to the problems...
Antisocial Networking couldn't have popped up at a better time for me, as I was actually sitting here, struggling with nascent suspicions about the nature of the XFN microformat. I've been designing...
It gets tiresome when every time someone publishes an article about this issue, a stream of misogynistic trolls start babbling and complaining. You fucking assholes are just proving the point...
A fascinating chronicle of introducing the One Laptop Per Child project to a small school in Peru. One particular aspect that really jumped out at me was: On the first day, we also discovered that...
Write Articles, Not Blog Postings could be one of the most arrogant and ineffably crude pieces of writing that Jacob Nielsen has ever published. He starts with reasonable and valid advice: thorough,...
This technique been mentioned in passing for a couple of years now, and recently seems to be gaining a fair amount of attention. Many web designers love the idea of building dropdowns like this....
Joel on Software has published the first draft of a short essay on usability, where he makes the salient point that: Something is usable if it behaves exactlyas expected. This principle of usability...
AJAX is not new(s). Previously, I've been critical of the nomenclature, perhaps more for aesthetic reasons than anything else, but I have to agree with Simon Willison, who...
Was lucky enough today to attend a talk by Ben Bederson, who presented his work on Interfaces for Staying in the Flow, and examples of software that he has developed ...
➔ AJAX Patterns: Design Patterns for AJAX Usability
➔ XMLHttpRequest Usability Guidelines
➔ IBM Research | Navigating a New Kind of Large-Scale Online Discussion
➔ Digital Web Magazine - Web 2.0 for Designers
➔ How Websites Learn | Acts of Volition
➔ hesketh.com/inc: Progressive? Enhancement? Paving? Way? for? Future
➔ Professional PHP » The Usability of Input Filtering
➔ The Application of Weblike Design to Data: Designing Data for Reuse
➔ CoFactors » Blog Archive » Net Rage: A Study of Blogs and Usability
➔ Why Free Software usability tends to suck
➔ Daring Fireball: Ronco Spray-On Usability
➔ User Mental Models of Persistence in RIAs
➔ Web Interface Design Tip: The Yellow Fade Technique (Signal vs. Noise)
➔ Boxes and Arrows: All watched over by machines of loving grace:
➔ Did-it, Enquiro, and Eyetools Uncover Google’s Golden Triangle
