Posts Tagged: Web Design and Usability
Password Contingency
Over the past few months, I've been noticing an interesting example of poor contingency design that I have yet to see handled well. Here's the situation: • I go to an e-commerce website I haven't visited in a while and I go to login to my account. I can't remember which of my normal five …
Favourite Favicons: Five
Each of the last three times I made a post with more favicons to be added to the original collection, I honestly kept thinking that that would be it. Then I got some good suggestions and happened to run across a few more and a future installment started building. Well, now there are well over 150 …
Civilizations are Crumbling
It's been a depressing couple of weeks for me in a literary way. I've just finished reading Asimov's Foundation and HG Well's The Time Machine and I've just begun Jane Jacob's Dark Age Ahead. I started each book entirely without consciously choosing a common theme and I ended up reading three …
Mozilla Store Launched
I'll try to not get into the habit of posting on my weblog everytime silverorange launches a new site, but this one seems special. On Sunday night, the new Mozilla Store went live and we're pretty excited. • We designed this site from the ground up, including the front-end interface and a …
Favourite Favicons: Four
I just keep on coming across stellar examples of favicons, so I'll keep adding to the original collection. Again, suggestions are always welcome. • I've decided to stay fairly strict with limiting anti-aliased favicons but Jason Santa Maria's makes the grade. Also, check out the accounting firm …
Cooking Up Improved CSS Tabs
A few months ago, I developed some simple CSS tabs and shared them over at the silverorange labs. Ever since, I've wanted to re-engineer them to improve upon them. Then, last night someone posted over on the labs site encouraging me to nest the secondary menu in the primary list. I stayed up until …
Swiftradius Design
Over the past few months, I've been working with a friend on the branding of his fledgling company. It's been a fun and challenging experience: one that refutes my earlier belief that working with people you know only leads to disaster. Although my expertise is certainly not in the skill of brand …
Even More Favourite Favicons
OK, this is getting a bit silly, but here are even more favicons I've come across in the past few weeks. I decided to relax my no-anti-aliasing rules a little because some icons like John Hicks, Andy Budd, and Infrangible were too nice to turn down. Thanks to everyone who gave me recommendations …
Mix a Little Alegbra into CSS?
I may be missing something here, but I've been thinking lately that mixing some basic algebra and arithmetic into CSS could offer some really powerful options and solve some common design problems. Maybe this stuff is part of the CSS3 spec, which I'm not too aware of, but if not it might be …
We Like Stuff
Our little crew at silverorange have recently started a site called silverorange stuff where we're reviewing lots of stuff we own. So far I've reviewed my bike helmet, some chairs, and my headphones.