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Asa Raskin has made a really useful example of how to implement undo easily in user interfaces. Here’s the example file (linked directly to a page at his company Humanized). Try deleting some items and then press undo. Note how there is no confirmation when you delete and the items can come back pressing undo. […]

I wanted this post to be named “Usability Lessons from RailsConf Europe 2007” — but realized that only some what I want to write below is about usability. So RailsConf Europe this year is over, and there are a few things i want to highlight from a conference that in general was a smash hit. […]

Live notes from RailsConf Europe 2007 testing tutorial by Chad Fowler and Marcel Molina.

When asking a user about personal details you should also tell what you are going to use it for. Basically it’s always good practice to have a privacy policy available on your website so users can see what data is being collected about them, how it is uses etc. Many cooperate websites have privacy policies. […]

For the last days, Mads and myself have been working hard on our RailsConf presentation Tuesday next week.

At the presentation we will introduce a Ruby on Rails plugin that can create the foundation for a local Rails app based on forms scraped from a remote application. In our case, an internal application used for timereporting in Capgemini.

You might know this example. It works this way in Adobe Photoshop. Drag to adjust numberic value Mouseover the input box, hold down Cmd + drag left or right to increase / decrease. Hold down Cmd + Opt or Shift key and drag can change the value in decimal or 10 interval. This shortcut works […]

Imagine the amount of collective brainpower idiotic spammers waste on creative ideas for new ways to get past spam filters. This one was caught in the moderation queue (and would probably be caught with Akismet otherwise). For entertainment purposes, here is the text I recieved: Anikrichard | anlikivanna.80@mail.ru | wwwwww.com | IP: 72.9.235.218 hello , […]

Last week our old DVD player stopped working, and we decided it was time for a technological quantum leap. So I ordered this DVD/harddisk recorder: Amitech 736 with all the right buzzword features: DVD player/recorder Built-in harddisk (I ordered the 250GB version) Digital tuner as a supplement to the analog tuner (better quality of recordings) […]