Archive for the 'Usability' Category

Link of the Day - CSS and Web Standards

This tutorial teaches CSS using both hand-coding and Style Master for Windows. You can also follow it using instructions for Style Master for Mac OS X. By working through the exercises you will learn all about CSS for text styling and page appearance including layout, and create a stylish looking page like this. If you want to learn CSS by hand-coding alone, simply work through all the exercises and code examples and skip all the

Link of the Day - CSS No Crap Primer

This is a down and dirty, only the facts ma’am, very quick tutorial. Please understand that this is just the barest of surface scratching, but I am hoping it will kick start you to the concept. Once you have that, all the other info on the Web makes sense. I’m assuming you know nothing, because someone reading this may know exactly that, so don’t be insulted if I cover what you have known for months.

Link of the Day - Trevor Morris Photographics

When I settled into the office this morning I started researching Adobe Photoshop short cuts for what was going to be a top ten list of great short cuts everybody should know but as I did so, Trevor Morris kept coming up in the search results and links from other great resources and after reading a handful of his articles I think it’s fair to say that the best thing a young designer can do

Making Images Print Friendly

Aaron Gustafson has produced a wonderful article on replacing web images with images suitable for printing, the iIR: img Image Replacement method allows web designers to create pages which look great in both web and print.

Using Aaron’s method, designers should be able to create and maintain web sites viewable on multiple devices without having to deploy multiple versions of the site. This will allow users to access the same web site via an iPhone,

Link of the Day : LogTenPro

Coradine LogTenProCoradine Aviation’s LogTenPro is a great flight log designed for the Apple Macintosh. It allows pilots to keep track of their flight time, sort, index and print the materials in a variety of ways. This is critically important for pilots as their log books are official records.

LogTenPro has modeled their basic interface by combining the look of a series of Apple applications namely Mail, iCal and iPhoto

Helping Users Remember Their Email Addresses

I’m a strong believer that users shouldn’t have to think in order to use my products. In fact, I proudly sport my copy of Don’t Make Me Think to just about every party I venture to, which could explain a lot about the number of parties I go to. In his book, Steve Krug writes a wonderful chapter on helping users recover from their mistake and the most common mistake users make when filling