Web Developer • Designer • Writer
Forms vs. People What do users dislike most about the Web? It’s almost certainly filling out forms. And by a crazy coincidence, what do Web developers find the most challenging aspect of their work? Forms must certainly rank high on the list. Forms are that locus in the interface where the differences between humans and …
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There’s probably something worse out there somewhere, but I certainly haven’t seen anything this bad in a long time. This is the bottom nav bar on all the pages at Roget’s Hyperlinked Thesaurus. You actually have to use almost all the sections of the site before the navigation starts to make sense. Oh, and that …
I just learned that an email address I’ve been using for ten years, and through which I’ve received thousands of messages is invalid and just won’t work—at least according to this ISP’s validation script!
An overlooked problem of Web forms arises when the choices offered do not make sense to the user.
I wrote an article for the new online Web design magazine, 13things, entitled “Horizontal Flow: The Magic of Row-Based Design.” In it, I examine what the effect of column-based design has been, advantages of using rows to recapture the organizational effects of the grid that were largely lost when we abandoned table-based layouts, and some …
Andrew loves one-pagers.
Working on a new MacBook is like worshipping in the temple of the Goddess of Beauty.
Any one who’s worked in Web design can relate to this: http://www.makemylogobiggercream.com/
Tuesday August 10, 2004 Although on this particular site I use a fixed-width layout, I’m a huge fan of liquid layouts, as you can see at A1 ProCoat and frimmin.com. The common arrangement of a 640- or 800-pixel-wide fixed-pixel presentation floating in the middle (or worse, slapped against the left side of the window) of …