Archive for Category: Usability
CSS Framework Roundup
A great design and web front-end weblog, Smashing Magazine, has put together an excellent article on CSS frameworks. Building a great web front end takes a lot of elements coming together successfully, such as having a good understanding of your user’s needs, building an effective information architecture around that understanding and creating an engaging and […]
Form design tips
As I discussed in my post on del.icio.us last week, sometimes the rush to create an innovative new tool or technique results in some of the fundamentals of good usability design being glossed over. Tried and true methods aren’t sexy… unless they have eye-tracking images! Luke Wroblewski has put together a very informative column on […]
del.icio.us misses the Web 1.0 train
Continuing my trend-bucking look at web services and technologies that have been around for a while, I wanted to talk about del.icio.us (which I’ll be spelling delicious), a social bookmarking service. The core idea is that you can save bookmarks, and other delicious users can browse your bookmarks. It’s a simple, powerful idea that has […]
