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11 Dec 08

10 Principles of the UI Design Masters - NETTUTS

A few of these are obvious (in the sense of "why didn't I see that before"), and a few are counter-intuitive (don't overdo accessibility features). Good stuff to keep in mind for user experience design.

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15 May 08

The Rise of Contextual User Interfaces - ReadWriteWeb

Interesting thoughts on moving away from the traditional Microsoft inspired standard user interface into more context-appropriate navigation in the style of Apple's products. Not sure if it's a good idea to reinvent the wheel every time you create an application, and there's something to be said for standardization with the issues of accessability, but it's also nice to be able to use apps without a manual. It's a tricky and expensive business to do that right though.

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18 Jan 08

Publications - User Experience Magazine

  • Usability Professionals Association website with resources around UI and UX.  They publish a magazine about UX as well.  A lot of information here.
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05 Oct 06

CSS-Only, Table-less Forms :: Code Samples :: Jeff Howden :: JeffHowden.com

  • A comprehensive example of creating tableless forms with fieldset/legend/label elements and CSS. - bluecockatoo on 2006-10-04

Five XHTML Elements You Didn

  • An article on some useful but not widely used HTML elements that can make your life easier from the HTML 4.0 spec. Some finagling would have to be done to use them from ASP.Net, unfortunately. - bluecockatoo on 2006-10-05

Styling even more form controls | 456 Berea Street

  • A big sampling of CSS styled input controls on various browsers and OSes. Good reference for seeing how your CSS will affect input controls, and basically the foundation for the argument that you shouldn't bother because there's no way to make them look the same everywhere... - bluecockatoo on 2006-10-05

Better Accessible Forms | Accessify

  • Article on how using fieldset/label/legend makes forms a lot more accessible to screenreaders, including examples of how not using them is confusing. - bluecockatoo on 2006-10-05
28 Sep 06

Seth's Blog

  • Seth Godin has an intresting perspective on things that seems to match mine in a lot of ways. I like his critcal thinking and ways to cut through the BS of marketing and advertising. Interesting blog. - bluecockatoo on 2006-09-28
14 Sep 06

Digital Web Magazine - Usability for Rich Internet Applications

  • Article on usability for "web 2.0" type applications. Explores what's useful and what gets in the way. - bluecockatoo on 2006-08-23
  • Regular folks who have been using the Internet for a number of years are comfortable with the existing page-based model and limited interactivity, as clumsy as it may appear to designers and developers. It takes time for people to adapt to new approaches. It will be some time before conventions emerge and users are comfortable with the new generation of applications. Go slowly, adding richness where it significantly improves usability, and relying on traditional models where these better suit your user group.
23 Aug 06

Advanced Common Sense - Usability Workshops

  • Something to consider when the 2006 Schedule comes out... - bluecockatoo on 2006-08-23

UI10

  • Something maybe to do next year - bluecockatoo on 2006-08-23

DOM Scripting: The book - Sample chapter: Best Practices

  • Some tips on how to design pages to work when javascript or css is disabled in the browser. - bluecockatoo on 2006-08-23

Particletree · The Hows and Whys of Degradable Ajax

  • A tutorial about how to create Ajax pages that also function if javascript is disabled in the browser - bluecockatoo on 2006-08-23

Should calendars online look like calendars offline? - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)

  • Interesting discussion on the use of calendars and how they should be designed for the web. - bluecockatoo on 2006-08-23

Dive Into Accessibility: Table of contents

  • A set of articles about how to design your websites for different accessiblity needs. - bluecockatoo on 2006-08-23

Edit in Place with JavaScript and CSS

  • Creating controls that allow you to edit/sort them on the fly with CSS and Javascript in an AJAX fashion. - bluecockatoo on 2006-08-23

Juicy Studio: Colour Contrast Analyser

  • A tool that calculates the color contrast ratio of colors you supply for usablity purposes. It also includes the formula that the tool uses to calculate. - bluecockatoo on 2006-08-23

Juicy Studio: Luminosity Contrast Ratio Analyser

  • A tool for checking luminosity contrast ratio for usability purposes. Supposedly the newer way to figure out whether your design is contrasty enough. - bluecockatoo on 2006-08-23
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