On Ajaxian, they had this article about BlueprintCSS. It’s a CSS framework to make grids and other useful base components of a webpage. My main concern however is having equal-height columns. It doesn’t seem to have that, on first glance. My second concern is how detailed it is with great commenting. This is a good…
There are many ways of using a image sprite. Most ways use a background-image that can be moved using CSS. The problem is that this method creates alot of CSS defintitions that are hard to manage. The reason is that Firefox does not support the background-position-x CSS attribute. This really sucks because it means that…
I have been using PowerPoint to do my UX Design at Marketo. I used to use Visio for this, but I really like the ability of PowerPoint to make quick animations. I should probably give Visio a try again, but regardless, I have a suggestion for the next version of PowerPoint. I hope someone over…
Wow, is it preseason already?!? That off-season just flew on by. The Jets are primed to win the Superbowl this year. It’s just one month until the season opener against the hated New England Patriots. This is a MUST-WIN game. It’s retarded to think that the very first game is a must-win, but I really…
There has been alot of talk lately about Rich Text Editors (RTE). There are alot of of them out there. FCKEditor, TinyMCE and xStandard are just a few. Recently Yahoo launched their own RTE. (Seems a little slow to me). EXT just announced they would have a RTE in their 2.0 release. (That 2.0 release…
Katie is Crescent Fresh. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=crescent+fresh #4 adj; Of great kick-assity.
For a while I was writing the book, but the more I worked on it, the more it was looking like a regular old programming book. I really don’t want to write a programming book. I want to write a User Experience or Interaction Design book. That is what I know best. Sure, jQuery is…
I recently described what I do as “OXO is to kitchen utensils as I am to Websites.” Oxo has awesome designs. Check out their description of universal design. I love their stuff. They are fun to use and make me feel like the product cares about me as a human being. Even if its just…
I find it fascinating how people react to responsibility and ideas. Some people, like myself, find it easier to avoid responsibility. Although, when I take on responsibility for something and achieve it, I feel a great sense of accomplishment. But it isn’t “easy” for me. I struggle to do the right thing. My wife, on…
Brad Neuberg’s brainstorming technique yesterday was called The Sacred Cow. You put on the white board all your assumptions about “sacred cows” of the browser. These aren’t hard and fast rules, but rather they are things that people assume. Of course, there are current innovative examples that break many of these. Someone tooks pictures, so…
I am reporting on a break-through idea. I have to describe it. It will change the world. Ar at least change the World Wide Web. It’s not “my” idea. It was a result of a brainstorming session. I’ll explain: It’s the last day of Ajax Experience. It started off with a keynote by Kevin Lynch…
Today is day 2 of AjaxExperience 2007. It is the first conference I have attended since Usability Week 2006. I have met lots of great people, like Bill Scott from Yahoo. He worked on their design patterns site, which I think is something every good designer should read. Also, Brian Cherne of HoverIntent fame. I love that…
Logos are so tough. Every group needs a logo to hang its hat on. You need it for t-shirts and mugs and business cards and letter head. There are hundreds of companies out there, as well as freelance designers who will make a logo pretty inexpensively. However, only some logos get the status of “awesome”. …
I used to hate wearing hats. They would feel uncomfortable. I never used one while playing tennis until this year. At some point, I bought a can of tennis balls that came with a nice looking hat from Wilson. I wasn’t wearing it, but while playing tennis I started to feel the top of my…