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Posts Tagged ‘usability’

1. Rebuild Woes – Taping Some Cats Together to Build a Horse

   19 Sep 2004

   This site has been a bit quite for a while because my computer has pulled a Titanic; it scraped an iceberg about a three weeks ago and has been taking on water ever since. Last weekend I had to jump ship.

   The technical issues have been solved and I’ve taken the opportunity to totally rethink how I store my personal files and perform a clean install of everything. That has left an entirely different problem – a massive loss in familiarity/usability due to a system full of ‘default’ settings.

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2. Responsible Design – Form Styling

   31 Aug 2004

   There have been many great articles about styling forms with CSS, so there’s no point in me discussing that any further. There is one aspect of form styling that sometimes gets lost in the rush — the ‘why’.

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3. Cleaning Up the Sawdust

   24 Aug 2004

   “It’s the little things…”

   Oh so true.
   When I designed this site I had grandiose plans for the functionality as well as the design. Somehow I’ve only found time for the design plans and about three quarters of the functionality – that stops now.
   Structural changes are afoot.
   Please watch your head for loose debris.

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