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Friday, March 11th, 2005I just found this Flash Movie featuring a finger-DJ and simply love its simplicity.
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I just found this Flash Movie featuring a finger-DJ and simply love its simplicity.
Just stumbled upon sigtraders, a service that allows you to make money with your forums signature. Splendid idea, we sink in spam emails and unwanted popups, why not add another level of unwanted advertisments. My personal answer: Kick every forum member signing up because of unsolicited advertising.
Following a discussion I just couldn’t stop myself participating in about date form fields on the list I googled a bit on the topic of date entry usability and found a extensive usability study on hotel booking systems.
There is no silver bullet, and it is very dependent on the product. The battling sides are making it easy to use for the vistors vs. stopping them from entering wrong data. As a rule of thumb I found for our projects:
I just played with Sloppy, a tool to simulate dial-up connections on your broadband for testing purposes, and I am very happy indeed with it. So if you have a web site or product that is most likely to be used by dial-up users, check them out with sloppy slowing down your connection.
A friend of mine just started diving into web design and is planning to redesign the web site / shop of the company she is working for. Yesterday we talked a bit about what is there to do and she complained about everybody wanting to contribute to the visual design of the site.
To help her keep her colleagues busy while she can concentrate on the design and the branding, I came up with these 10 things that can be done to ensure a good web site even before you start developing.