Above? Left Justified? Right Justified? Luke Wroblewski gave an excellent talk called “Design Patterns” at SXSW. A highlight was when Luke presented the results of user interface research into the advantages of various form label alignments. I’ve condensed the slides from Luke’s talk down to just the ones on form labels because that information holds up […]
The paragraph that follows comes from The Kodak Primer, a promotional pamphlet apparently published in 1888, around the time the first Kodak camera was introduced. The major innovation of the Kodak camera was that it used special film that was flexible and was stored on spindles. This meant that a spindle of film could be […]
Are we getting stupid? François Joseph de Kermadec Big Beautiful, Dumb Whitespace Odeo goes simple and only insults us a little 33inc.com [Big buttons] implicitly say, “Hey, you’re too foolish to choose what to do next, so I’ve put a really big […]
Bruce Tognazzini, Tog for short, is a well-known user-interface expert and was Apple employee #66. He is the author of a 3 part article comparing the speed of completing tasks with the mouse vs. the keyboard: part 1, part 2, and part 3. To summarize the articles: after testing subjects by having them complete the same […]
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