Archive for August, 2007

Drop-shadows Don’t Fill Shopping Carts

Thursday, August 30th, 2007 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

I think Zeldman has a fantastic point here: Drop-shadows don’t fill shopping carts. Aside from a few buttons and arrows, nearly all of the work of a user interface is performed by words. Yet most designers don’t question the text their clients dump on them, and most budgets don’t cover editing and writing. Learn how […]

Crop or Resize Alternative: Stretch Your Images

Monday, August 27th, 2007 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

This video by Dr. Ariel Shamir from Siggraph 2007 demonstates an alternative to traditional cropping vs. resizing of images. As images on web pages target many different screen sizes, this alternative describes a way to measure the least significan lines in a photo and “stretch” images along these lines. What an interesting video. It will […]

Netbank Log Off When Navigating on Page

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

I just realized that the netbank I use logs me off when I request a page which the bank defined as “outside the netbank”. In my case I was at the net bank page watching my account. I pressed “search” to search for how to find the IBAN/BIC/SWIFT code for international transfer of money. This […]

Videos: Innovation and User Interface Developments

Saturday, August 11th, 2007 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

Two very interesting videos about Google The new innovative improvements to Google Maps… View the demo video (it’s just a few minutes):Via Jacob Hage’s blog. My favorite is the drag-and-drop replanning of routes. Danish competitors are lightyears behind here… If you have not seen it: Check out Douglas Merril (CIO at Google) talk about innovation […]

Powerful Text Editor Released

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

E-texteditor just got out of beta. I have actively contributed with improvement suggestions and error reports, as this editor has all needed features for rapid web devlopment, and has potential to become even better. I suggest you check out the inspiring screencast and perhaps buy a trial if you like it. More info: E-Texteditor website: […]