The fold: 5% of users’ total time is spent past the 2,000-pixel mark
Even though 5% of users’ total time is spent past the 2,000-pixel mark, they tend to scan information that far from the top fairly superficially: some pages are very long (often 4,000+ pixels in my...
View ArticleUltimate soda-lover’s destination
My thought had always been; that what I wanted to do was do business with other businesses my size, to help them become new businesses. John Nese, Owner Galco’s Soda Pop Store
View ArticleAppropriation
… borrowing of a style, typically used elsewhere, as the basis for a design. This may be done for purely aesthetic reasons as a method to present information in a certain way, but often it is done to...
View ArticleLazy by nature
You won’t hear me say that ignorance is bliss. But as a non-intellectual person, when creating things I need to find a sound balance between knowing and not knowing. I found out long ago that this is...
View ArticleWeb app personality is essential
Software is media today, particularly consumer software. When people use it [your software] they approach it in the same way they would approach media. When I say media I’m talking about a magazine,...
View ArticleReading and scanning on the web are not the same thing
Users read left-to-right. Users scan top-to-bottom. This is why it makes sense to left-justify menu labels (list items) and headings. Jakob Nielsen
View ArticleThe history of CSS resets
http://sixrevisions.com/css/the-history-of-css-resets/ Sound foundation ensures sane development. Nate Koechley Note Further resources: http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2011/01/03/reset-revisited/...
View ArticleHTML5 Priority of Constituencies
In case of conflict, consider users over authors over implementors over specifiers over theoretical purity. In other words costs or difficulties to the user should be given more weight than costs to...
View ArticleDesign flourishes under constraints
[On the concept of design in general, regardless of what medium it's in] Design really flourishes under constraints. The more known quantities that we have to deal with, the more creative solutions we...
View ArticleWhitespace
Some might argue that passive whitespace is the unconsidered space present within a composition. I disagree: if you don’t consider all your whitespace, that’s just bad design. Passive whitespace...
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