Design

The Web Is An Ugly Place

I found a link on Ajaxian today about a date picker widget that uses Prototype and Scriptaculous. But why does it have to look so ugly?

Eulerian Date Picker

I recently finished writing a date picker for work. I’m not entirely pleased with it, but it seems to work OK.

Primary & Secondary Actions

Luke Wroblewski recently posted an interesting article on the design of Web Forms: Primary & Secondary Actions in Web Forms. He analyses the eye tracking results from study participants as they filled out several forms with different button placements.

Ajaxy Goodness

Back a million years ago, I wrote about using Ajax to allow visitors to search my site. When I ported the Web site from MovableType to WordPress, I had to give up this feature because I didn’t know PHP or WordPress well enough to make it work.

You Remind Me

Just yesterday I noticed something peculiar about Microsoft Outlook:

When I’m creating a meeting to which multiple people are invited, I get to determine when they get reminded of the meeting.

That just seems wrong.

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Sierra is Clueless

Kathy Sierra is at it again: almost as if she’s tuned into my own ranting and raving. Her latest article is about “cluelessness”.