Better Form Design: One Thing Per Page (Case Study)
In 2008, I worked on Boots.com. They wanted a single-page checkout with the trendiest of techniques from that era, including accordions, AJAX and client-side validation.
Each step (delivery address, delivery options and credit-card details) had an accordion panel. Each panel was submitted via AJAX. Upon successful submission, the panel collapsed and the next one opened, with a sliding transition.
Quick Course On Effective Website Copywriting
Many dismiss copywriting as something that ad agency people do. Truthfully, all of us need to pay close attention to copywriting if we want to achieve our business objectives. [Links checked February/11/2017]
30 free Sketch plugins to grab right now
You’ve been working up a storm in Sketch, and for that you deserve all of the high-fives. But now it’s time to kick things up a notch and improve your workflow—so stop what you’re doing and grab these 30 free Sketch plugins.
Fluid Typography - Codepen
How to write a Developer CV/Résumé that will get you hired | Peter Sergeant [blogs.perl.org]
WSJ Saturday Puzzles
Printed May 30 2015 - Dec 20 2025
Be careful not to look at acrostic answers!!
Try: https://blogs.wsj.com/puzzle/2016/09/23/ (Friday date)
Wayback machine can pull back blogs. PDFs are still live
https://www.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/769SatPuz09242016.pdf
http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/puzzle20150829.pdf
This worked (2023-01-10)
http://blogs.wsj.com/puzzle/2015/08/07/rows-garden-saturday-puzzle-33/tab/puzzles/
Puzzle date format changes weekly!
https://www.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/puzzle20150801.pdf
Last puzzle for Cox & Rathvon: 2023-12-16
Material Design - Google
Material Design is a unified system that combines theory, resources, and tools for crafting digital experiences.
Pong with SVG.js
Everybody loves the vintage game Pong, right? We sure do. What's more fun? Building it yourself!
That's why we decided to create one with SVG.js - to highlight some aspects of our library. It might seem like a complex idea for a small tutorial, but as you'll see, it's simpler than it sounds. Let's dive into it!
Personality | Atlassian Design
At Atlassian, we want to create harmonious experiences for our users. We solve challenging interactions at the outset, and then apply the solutions consistently across our product suite - making sure people only have to learn them once.
Our guidelines have space for flexibility, and are continuously revised and expanded to suit changing product needs.
How to find freelance design work
Discover seven sure-fire ways to find more freelance design clients, and build your personal brand on the side.
6 tips for creating more accessible web content | Just UX Design
We often think about accessibility in the design and build process, but content is always king. These are some ongoing considerations to keep your text and media accessible.
Ask Slashdot: Cheap and Fun Audio Hacks?
A few years back I discovered that even a person of limited soldering skills can create a nifty surround-sound system with the magic of a passive matrix decoder system; the results pleased me and continue to, It's certainly not a big and fancy surround system, but I recommend it highly as a project with a high ratio of satisfaction to effort. (Here's one of the many, many tutorials out there on doing it yourself; it's not the long-forgotten one I actually used, but I like this one better.) I like listening to recorded music sometimes just to hear how a particular playback system sounds, not just to hear the music "as intended." I'd like to find some more audio hacks and tricks like this that are cheap, easy, and fun. Bonus points if they can be done with the assistance of a couple of smart children, without boring them too much. I have access to Goodwill and other thrift stores that are usually overflowing with cheap-and-cheerful gear, to match my toy budget. What mods or fixes would be fun to implement? Are there brands or models of turntable I should look for as the easiest with which to tinker? Are there cool easy-entry projects akin to that surround sound system that I could use to improve my radio reception? I'm not sure what's out there, but I'd like to get some cool use out of the closet-and-a-half I've got filled with speakers and other gear that I can't quite bear to toss, since "it still works."
100 Days of Swift – Sam Lu – Medium
Since Apple announced Swift as the new modern language for their products, I’ve been wanting to learn it. Even though my background isn’t programming, I decided to give it a shot. A little more than a month ago, I finished my 100 Days of Swift Project.
Checkout all my Swift projects — samvlu.com
The Most Important Design Jobs Of The Future
Yesterday’s graphic designers are today’s UX designers. Will tomorrow’s UX designers be avatar programmers, fusionists, and artificial organ designers? Yes, according to the illustrious roster of design leaders we spoke with here.
Ask Slashdot: Composing an e-Book With a Couple of Bells and Whistles
I want to edit an e-book, a scientific textbook to be distributed on the Kindle tablet to be exact. The book is written. For that I used LibreOffice.
It comes complete with index, drawings, pictures, formulae and its present look and feel is no different from the majority of scientific text, you might be accustomed to browsing. I need advice for the next step, which consists in making this digital pile of data suitable for an e-book.. with a slight twist. The e-book should allow for:
— picture zoom-in in pop-ups on screen
— allow in-text basic interactivity, e.g. when in a exercise, multiple answers are proposed, each answer when clicked should display "Right" or "Wrong" (for instance).
Can you recommend, if not a commercial package that allows such features right out of the box, then at least and preferably open-source technology needed for me to achieve what I want ? I am willing to get down to moderate programming to use your suggested solution. I am conversant in C, C++ and getting there with Python.