Reliable Cross-Browser Testing, Part 1: Internet Explorer
Posted by filipino website designer in Web Design on 05. Sep, 2011 | 0 Comments
In a perfect world, cross-browser testing would be straightforward. We would download a legacy version of a browser, run it, and be able to instantly test our pages and scripts without a single care in the world. The reality of cross-browser testing, though, is very different. Issues such as runtime conflicts when running multiple [...]
Designing Global Applications For Children
Posted by filipino website designer in Web Design on 05. Sep, 2011 | 0 Comments
The entire process of designing digital applications comes with many challenges and decisions. For the majority of projects, you will be designing in somewhat familiar territory. But what happens when you have to design something to be used by hundreds of children around the world? How do you accommodate your design for kids of [...]
The Lost Art Of Design Etiquette
Posted by filipino website designer in Web Design on 30. Aug, 2011 | 0 Comments
Endless layers in Photoshop. Overstuffed image folders. That jQuery plug-in that has 12 files associated with it. Hundreds or thousands of individual pieces go into making a website. No wonder we go off the deep end when we can’t find a closing div — er, section tag. We work with a ridiculously large number of things, [...]
Taking A Customer From Like To Love: The UX Of Long-Term Relationships
Posted by filipino website designer in Web Design on 27. Aug, 2011 | 0 Comments
What do you mean “improve”? I charged him correctly, didn’t I?. My manager looked at me, disappointed: Yes, Des, you charged him correctly. But a vending machine can do that, too. They show up on time; they’re more accurate; I don’t pay them by the hour; and they’re never hungover. Your job is to [...]
Writing CSS For Others
Posted by filipino website designer in Web Design on 27. Aug, 2011 | 0 Comments
I think a lot of us CSS authors are doing it wrong. We are selfish by nature; we get into our little bubbles, writing CSS (as amazing as it may be) with only ourselves in mind. How many times have you inherited a CSS file that’s made you say “WTF” at least a dozen [...]
The Semantic Grid System: Page Layout For Tomorrow
Posted by filipino website designer in Web Design on 24. Aug, 2011 | 2 Comments
CSS grid frameworks can make your life easier, but they’re not without their faults. Fortunately for us, modern techniques offer a new approach to constructing page layouts. But before getting to the solution, we must first understand the three seemingly insurmountable flaws currently affecting CSS grids. Problems Problem #1: They’re Not Semantic The biggest [...]
New Approaches To Designing Log-In Forms
Posted by filipino website designer in Web Design on 24. Aug, 2011 | 4 Comments
For many of us, logging into websites is a part of our daily routine. In fact, we probably do it so often that we’ve stopped having to think about how it’s done… that is, until something goes wrong: we forget our password, our user name, the email address we signed up with, how we [...]
From Monitor To Mobile: Optimizing Email Newsletters With CSS
Posted by filipino website designer in Web Design on 19. Aug, 2011 | 0 Comments
HTML email has a reputation for being a particularly tough design medium. So tough, in fact, that many designers regard coding and testing even the simplest email design to be almost as bad as fixing display quirks in Internet Explorer 6, and only slightly better than a tooth extraction. So, it’s with much courage [...]
Breaking The Rules: A UX Case Study
Posted by filipino website designer in Web Design on 19. Aug, 2011 | 7 Comments
I read a lot of design articles about best practices for improving the flow of sign-up forms. Most of these articles offer great advice, such as minimizing the number of steps, asking for as little information up front as possible, and providing clear feedback on the status of the user’s data. If you’re creating [...]
HTML5 And The Document Outlining Algorithm
Posted by filipino website designer in Web Design on 17. Aug, 2011 | 0 Comments
By now, we all know that we should be using HTML5 to build websites. The discussion now is moving on to how to use HTML5 correctly. One important part of HTML5 that is still not widely understood is sectioning content: section, article, aside and nav. To understand sectioning content, we need to grasp the [...]
