I’ve been trying out the latest version of Wufoo and I have to say it’s come on a lot since the first version that I saw. Wufoo is an online tool for building and hosting forms. You may think (as did I) that building web forms is easy, as a web designer it should be. [...]
Thomas Baekdal gives one of the best examples I’ve seen of the difference between Usability and User experience. His road analogy makes the point crystal clear. Thomas also demonstrates that Usability is based on metrics that can be measured, I’m going to try out his techniques on my own application prototypes.
I’ve never liked static wireframe documents, I’ve always found that there are bits that don’t make sense. If a chunk of functionality changes during the design phase, very often it will be featured in more than one place in the document and whoever is doing the update will miss a bit somewhere. There is also [...]
Should content be tightly templated or should freedom to format be the best policy?
This is an issue that came up for discussion recently in planning a project, its also something that I’ve been through before. Like so many things in web development, there’s no definitive answer to this and each case must be discussed on [...]
I’ve been having a few problems with my PC this month, It’s fairly old now and tends to overheat and shut down with prolonged use. The recent warmer weather has been causing me major problems though. On a hot day my machine struggles to stay functional for more than 20 minutes leaving me with a [...]
