I got a question from Kimberly, one of our reader, in the Sensible Forms: A Form Usability Checklist post where she asks where the best place to display the asterisk indicating a required field in af form is: […] I’d like to see the askterick appear before the label so that a user isn’t forced […]
After a tip from Ars Technica I found that is was possible to cheat Google into letting you test their new front page design (you can do it too!). Click on thumbnail to see larger screenshot As far as I can see the only difference is that they now display their categories (Images, Groups, News […]
I just thought I would share a good experience I had today :) Many websites today are divided into sections – some even exist in different versions that the user has to choose from. If you visit the Dell website (and many others!) you are asked to make a choice of whether you are shopping […]
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Last week Max Kiesler wrote “Round-up of 30 AJAX tutorials” where he included our article “Live search explained”. Max’s post has been mentioned everywhere on the internet, which also means that our blog gets visited a lot. Ajaxian.com (that has previously driven a lot of traffic at us) has also mentioned his AJAX round-up.
If you are a frequent reader and take a look at the front page sometimes, you might have noticed that we updated the layout quite a bit. The new layout is the first of many steps we will take to make the life easier for blog readers.
In the spirit of sharing we now once again have a full month worth of statistics boiled down to a few easy-to-read paragraphs with the highlights of last months stories and private data on our readers – all spiced up with nice graphics courtesy of Google Analytics :)
I just sent this to the CSS-D discussion list Hope you can help me with this. I want to limit a table cell height to only one line of text. My example below does not work – any height on td is simply ignored if content is long. Problem here (according to for instance http://annevankesteren.nl/2004/01/css-tables […]
I’m a big fan of Steve Krug and especially the “Don’t make me think” mantra (because most people actually get the point). In his presentation at the Boston-IA chapter from Jan 26, this blog suddently shows up.
Steve Krug refers to “25% of all web users are disabled”. Steve Krug. I’m amazed!
Bryce Glass (soldierant) and Frank Spillers have created a stunning diagram on User Experience (Via Column Two).
Do you remember this fish?
Since this blog is primarily about web standards and and usability, I thought this would be a good time to give you sort of an anti-webstandards, anti-usability insight. It’s a journey ten years back into time, where no web standards existed, and I learned how to make “killer websites“.
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