My current project to re-template this blog using semantic markup and microformats has raised some interesting questions.
Why use semantic markup?
There are plenty of good reasons to use semantic markup, the main one being that the markup gives context to the content elements. One of the goals of semantic markup is that the content can be [...]
Amy Hoy thunders through the user experience design methodolgy that she uses giving some excellent insights - especially for the type of designer who fires up Photoshop as the first step in every design task.
My favourite part of the article comes later where she deconstructs some product landing pages using green and red pens [...]
I spend much of my working day looking at web sites and web applications with a view to optimising the important elements and removing or hiding the ones which add no value or take value away from more important elements. It’s surprising then, how easily I overlooked these disciplines when dealing with my own website.
I [...]
I spotted this today on ajaxian, it a nice idea for beating spambots without resorting to captcha.
The idea is to use jQuery’s drag and drop functionality based on the assuption that spambots can’t interact with the page in this way. I could see an elegant UI solution which spawned the comment form on demand (e.g. [...]
… designing ways to manage an application.
It’s a subject that I’ve broached before, but I still get uncomprehending looks from developers when I explain that an application management interface should be as simple as (if not simpler than) the user facing interface.
Many developers have a blind spot when it comes to this, let’s take the [...]
