You’re reading Jeff Watkins’ thoughts about Web application design and development with a little bit of technology ranting thrown in for free.
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?
I recently finished writing a date picker for work. I’m not entirely pleased with it, but it seems to work OK.
Of course, my standards are a bit higher when it [...]
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.
I find it interesting that the fastest completion results favour the option which could cause the greatest [...]
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.
This weekend, I put the finishing touches on a [...]
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.
Kathy Sierra is at it again: almost as if she’s tuned into my own ranting and raving. Her latest article is about “cluelessness”.
Yes, I recognize that it’s ridiculous to equate “cluelessness” with “beginner’s mind”. Or is it? What if “clueless” is simply a label the glass-half-empty folks give the glass-half-full folks. If we’re [...]