Category: User Experience

  • Prioritizing your work

    David Seah’s Printable CEO Series incorporates some interesting paper-based tools for tracking and prioritizing your tasks during the day. His system assigns points to different types of tasks. Life-sustaining work, such as billing or signing new deals, earns 10 points. Work that provides concrete results that demonstrates your skills earns 5 points. Networking-related tasks are…

  • Ajax JSP tag library

    This should save some effort for JSP developers building out Ajax interfaces. This has been your daily Ajax link (via Dan).

  • Rethinking sitemaps and homepages

    Following up on the link to Derek Powazek’s article in a List Apart, here’s Keith Robinson has a similar take on the role of a home page in a site’s information architecture: Part of this problem stems from the idea that items on a Web site can’t live in more than one place within a…

  • IE 7 in public beta

    Todd tells us that Microsoft released the public beta of Internet Explorer 7 today, and he sent us this link to the Beta 2 developer checklist, including these items (among others): Verify your User Agent string detection detects Internet Explorer 7. Check your website for the use of CSS hacks that may have been turned…

  • Designing a site from back to front

    In Home Page Goals Derek Powazek explains why he designs the deepest pages of a site first before working his way back to the home page: Before I get into those goals, here

  • IE Tab – Firefox Extension

    This is it. The Firefox Extension I’ve been looking for. As a site developer I spend a great deal of time switching between IE and Firefox to test browser support. This extension completely removes that need and brings it all home. I haven’t tested it extensively however one of my other gripes has been the…