Usability Post: Fighting Perfection
If you’re like me, you probably often find yourself never fully satisfied with your work — always making tweaks and changes, always finding things you... more »
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I/O in Google Chrome
One of our early goals for Google Chrome was to make the browser as fast as we possibly could. But in addition to raw speed, we wanted it to be highly... more »
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5 Steps for the Perfect Tabbed Navigation Menu
I’ve just been browsing a site of a service that I’m trying out, and while I like the site and a lot of the interface, I came across a little design... more »
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Date Formatting and Parsing for Humans in Java with HumanTime
For a programmer, the system time in milliseconds is the fastest and easiest way to work with time. The problem is that understanding and working... more »
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12 Best Practices for UX in an Agile Environment - Part 2
In this second part, Jeff shares the remaining best practices he's uncovered in his research.
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Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox: When to Use Which User Experience Research Methods
Modern day user experience research methods can now answer a wide range of questions. Knowing when to use each method can be understood by mapping... more »
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27 Adobe AIR Applications - Handy For Web Designers
Every designer & developer loves handy tools that simplify frequent tasks. And, even if you’ve a complicated software that does the same thing,... more »
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Who Wants To Beat Google?
Google has been number one in search for quite some time. This article explains three things that an alternate search engine could do to take the... more »
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25 Sure-fire Ways To Motivate Your Team Members
Of all the resources utilized during a project, the team working on the project is the most complex to manage. When motivated, your project team can... more »
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100 Keyboard shortcuts (Windows)
Microsoft windows keyboard shortcuts. You might know most of these shortcuts, but probably not all of them. If you have more keyboard shortcuts,... more »
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Designing “Shorter” Web Forms
Long web forms could be scary for users and they could encourage clients to fly away from your site. Although that, it is difficult to make them... more »
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How to Search a Website Using ASP.NET 3.5
Learn some of the new features of ASP.NET 3.5 - including LINQ, Update Panels, Update Progress controls, etc.
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The Usability Problems of useit.com
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Jakob Nielsen has written some damn smart things about usability, and his work has probably done great things for the web in general. You hate to beat... more »
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Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox: About Us Information on Websites
We found a 9% improvement in the usability of About Us information on websites over the past 5 years. But companies and organizations still can't... more »
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Common Traits of Bad Web Design
Lately I have been writing a number of articles that I would consider to be more critical thinking based, so I thought that it may be interesting to... more »
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Remember Me’s with Rails
I recently had a need for a login system that needed a ‘remember me’ function. After hours of looking through countless blogs, I came to the... more »
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Across the Room UI
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One important aspect of interaction design is determining typical usage patterns for your application. What many people overlook here, is that these... more »
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Chrome - interviewing Ben Goodger
Ben Goodger was formerly known as the project lead behind the Mozilla Firefox Browser. Since 2005 he’s been working at Google, most recently as part... more »
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jQuery Cheat sheet
I am not a jQuery expert even if now i can say that i am using it in almost every project. There are times though that i need a quick reference even... more »
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Infinite Scroll jQuery Plugin, and wordpress plugin
Essentially infinite scroll is pre-fetching content from a subsequent page and adding it directly to the user’s current page. A jquery plugin for... more »
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How to optimize your blog for code samples plus some cool widgets/tools
Recently I have been posting more and more code samples in my blog and wanted to optimize my blog for code snippets . After some searching I found... more »
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How to convert selenium test cases to Tellurium test cases
The Tellurium Automated Testing Framework (Tellurium) is a test framework built on top of the Selenium test framework and it abstracts UI components... more »
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Use Whitespace to Indicate Relationships Between Content Elements
One of the most important tools in a designer’s toolbox is whitespace. Whitespace is just that — it’s space between various content pieces, like... more »
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An Open Letter to You, Webmaster
I’ve recently been contacted by your customer with regards to my web services. They mentioned that they were unhappy with your work and would like for... more »
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The Function of Rounded Corners
What’s the function of rounded corners? We use them simply to add a bit of eye-candy and improve the overall aesthetic of our websites and... more »
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