Category Archives: Web Design

Lea Verou – Pure CSS3 typing animation with steps()

Pretty nifty trick.

CSS-Tricks – Functional CSS Tabs Revisited

The idea of “CSS Tabs” has been around for a long time. If you Google it, a lot of what you get is styled CSS tabs, but less stuff on the build­ing an actu­ally func­tional tabbed area. At least, func­tional in the sense as we think of tabbed areas today: click a tab, see a

Ars Technica – Wikipedia editors voting on plan to “shutter” violent and sexual images

Not a bad plan, it’s a rea­son­able bal­ance between still pro­vid­ing a visual rep­re­sen­ta­tion of what­ever and mak­ing it eas­ier for peo­ple who don’t want to be “shocked” at the sight of the image.

Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox – Defer Secondary Content When Writing for Mobile Users

Wikipedia’s mobile ver­sion while typ­i­cally not known for it’s usabil­ity is used as a good exam­ple of hid­ing infor­ma­tion until needed.

The Watchmaker Project – How to fix the broken iPad form label click issue

Nice and sim­ple fix, defi­antly not quite as com­mon a prob­lem on the iPhone (rarely do I find myself want­ing to hit the label vs. the input field).

Official Gmail Blog – Our plans to support modern browsers across Google Apps

Wouldn’t that be amaz­ing if this is start of all web applications/sites being able to only sup­port this same list of browsers.

Signal vs. Noise – It just doesn’t matter

Totally true, the user expe­ri­ence should focus on mak­ing what mat­ters bet­ter not on adding in fea­tures that don’t add anything.