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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 […]

Posted at September 21, 2007 - 4:38 pm | no comments | Filed Under: Tools, Blogs, Usability

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 […]

Posted at August 27, 2007 - 9:48 pm | no comments | Filed Under: Usability

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 […]

Posted at August 21, 2007 - 6:56 pm | no comments | Filed Under: Usability