Nice article about OK/Cancel Buttons. I was researching this because I had to make a decision on Marketo whether or not to put the OK before the Cancel or vice-versa. Apparently, as this study shows, MacOS X and Windows do things very differently. Should the OK come first or last? This is definetely an idiom…
UX stands for User Experience. We used to call this Interaction Design (IxD) and before that we called it User Interface Design (UI). Before that they called it Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Design. Additionally, people have called parts of it Information Architecture or Visual Design. Fundamentally, they are all the same discipline. I call it Design.…
I am totally stunned that I have gone so long without knowing this works. <div class=”foo bar”>ONE</div> <div class=”foo”>TWO</div> <div class=”bar”>THREE</div> Before today, I didn’t think you could make a single-line CSS statement that affected ONLY number ONE and not TWO AND THREE. Previously, I would do torturous workarounds. But I was just informed today…
I think I am starting to unravel a great mystery. Why do people who are not trained and not talented in UX insist on telling designers what to do? I pretended to be a business owner talking to a UX Designer. The UX Designer wants to do XYZ. I think to myself, “I worked hard to…
So after Danny slammed my style last time, I decided that commadot.com needed a refresher. First I started looking at WordPress themes. After alot of looking, this one caught my eye. I started hacking it from there. I changed the graphics, the text, the order of some things. Then I added jQuery and started messing…
Truth be told, I use GMail as my primary mail program. I have been happy with the Google UX lately using Google Talk, GMail, Picasa, Picasa Web Albums and sometimes Google Desktop. Gmail is very good for mailing lists like jQuery. Much better than anything I have seen from Microsoft (Hotmail, Outlook, Outlook Express, Live…
DISCLAIMER: UX Judgements are harsh. Don’t get upset or defensive. Ignore them if you wish, but like Simon on American Idol, what I say hurts, but it’s true. The date picker in Google Analytics on the left is not obvious. The only way to make a custom range is to find a hidden icon no…
I have been a fan of http://www.Experts-exchange.com for a long time now. I registered in Sept 2003 and have earned 23,285 points. It is fulfilling to help people. I love that. And the whole structure is set up to easily ask questions and easily answer them. Recently (last year) they did a redesign which I…