I am quite enamored of my iPad, so much so that I can’t imagine how I functioned before I had one. As a left-brained Virgo information architect, though, I can’t use it without thinking about how to make it better.… Read more ›
Jacob Nielsen just proclaimed the lightbox the “interaction design technique of the year“: In UI terms, a lightbox draws the user’s attention to a dialog box, error message, or other design element in the middle of the screen by dimming… Read more ›
The November/December 2007 of Ragged Left, the newsletter of the STC Berkeley Chapter, is now online. The issue includes my summary of a talk given by Adaptive Path‘s Sarah Nelson and David Verba, entitled “Lessons Learned from Web Applications and… Read more ›
Sliders in web design are becoming as ubiquitous as the fading yellow highlight. They certainly offer a more interesting and sophisticated way of interacting with a lengthy data set (remember the old days: choose from a drop-down, click Submit, wait,… Read more ›
In the past week I’ve come across two useful reviews of best practices for designing web forms. The first is from LukeW’s Functioning Form–he writes about the pros and cons of different label placement options (top-aligned, right-aligned, left-aligned). He’s posted… Read more ›
