I enjoyed this post by Golden Krishna on the Cooper blog about how error messages are becoming increasingly less useful in helping you identify what has gone wrong.
Fortunately, some suggestions on writing good error messages are included towards the end, including this one from UXmatters.
Posted in: Usability | 2 Comments
A few months ago I updated the live chat tool for one of the websites I manage so that it would proactively pop up after a visitor had been on the site for a couple of minutes and had viewed several pages. The pop-up is pretty intrusive which concerned me from a user experience standpoint, but I thought I would try it out anyway.
Posted in: Web General | 3 Comments
I enjoyed this well explained tutorial on how to code multi-column data tables responsively (demo) so that they display in a usable format on small screen devices. The solution? Assign 'essential' and 'optional' classes to the the data columns and hide the optional columns at smaller screen widths using CSS3 media queries. Very nicely done.
[via CSS Tricks]
Posted in: CSS | 2 Comments
Order Confirmation Page Done Well
I thought this order confirmation page from Potbelly Sandwich Shop was nicely done (click to view larger).
Posted in: Web Design | 2 Comments
My Top Web Tools of 2011
I enjoyed reading ReadWriteWeb's top web products and top web developer tools of 2011, so I thought I'd put together my own list of top web tools of 2011, based on which ones I liked and used the most.
Posted in: Tools & Resources | 14 Comments
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