Category: User Experience

  • Oracle UI guidelines

    A discussion on a BayCHI mailing list led an Oracle UI engineer to post a link to these user interface guidelines. They present a fascinating look at a meticulously documented set of user-interface standards. The documentation specifies overarching standards, page elements, page-type templates, and numerous process flows. The description of partial page rendering provides a…

  • Avoiding too-long lines of copy

    Max Design recommends using the max-length attribute (no relation) to achieve the ideal line length for content. Svend Tofte shows how to accomplish the same result (max-width) in Internet Explorer.

  • New edition of IA bible in the works

    Lou Rosenfeld and Peter Morville are working on a third edition of the “Polar Bear” book, aka Information Architecture for the World Wide Web (O’Reilly), and in preparation for this they have posted a brief survey. I filled it out: Question 1: What’s obviously new in IA? Over the past five years, what major trend(s)…

  • Firefox UI about to evolve?

    It looks like the user interface people on the Firefox team have some interesting ideas about prospective changes to the browser chrome. (The newsgroup post linked here is more or less illegible in a proportional font. I copied it to a text file and viewed it with a monospace font and then all was hunky-dory.…

  • The Daily Ajax

    Here are today’s Ajax links: advAJAX / AdvancedAJAX 1.0 My-Bic = Easy Ajax This concludes the daily Ajax.

  • Always wanted to learn Javascript?

    No? Me neither. But if yes, check out Javascript in Ten Minutes at the new infogami website.