Firefox Proposal: A Better New Tab Screen
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about what it means to design interfaces at scale. The amount of time saved when the tasks we do often are... more »
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Amazing web design articles of Summer 2008
This is the second part of best summer 2008 articles, but this time focus is on web design. Again, there was a lot of great articles, tutorials and... more »
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How Simple Web Design Helps Your Business
Many web companies forget the cardinal rule of e-commerce: Web shoppers want as little hassle as possible. Instead of hopping in the car and driving... more »
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What Desktop Applications can Learn from Web Applications
Writing web applications is hard. But it doesn't mean that web applications is a worse class of applications compared to desktop apps. With the advent... more »
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Best unobtrusive anti-spam technique (Not CAPTCHA)
By far one of the best techniques when fighting spam, specially because it doesn't require any special attention from the user!
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6 Hints To Pimp Your Webforms' Style
Entry-level, good practice hints to give your webforms a bit more "edge". Get rid of your boring forms, and add some spicy CSS & javascript to make... more »
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100 Tips and Tools to Set Up Your Own Home LAMP Server
LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) servers are very popular for their ease of use and flexibility. Read on to find some of the best resources... more »
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Make Data Not Look Like Data
Just about every web page has some sort of data behind it. This blog post, for example, has a title, a date, categories, tags, and the body of the... more »
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The End Of the OS As We Know It
So the bloggers over at ZDNet have once again proclaimed the end of the operating system. Larry Dignan says: The operating system may be losing its... more »
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10 ways to create a well designed, user friendly website
A web site needs to be attractive, accessible and functional and here is how to do it.
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IntelliJ Idea 8: Smart Type Completion Becomes Even Smarter
Most of you are aware of IntelliJ IDEA smart type completion feature that is invoked with Ctrl+Shift+Space shortcut. In the latest IntelliJ IDEA 8... more »
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8 Golden Rules of Interface Design
From the book Designing the User Interface by Ben Shneiderman, he pointed out 8 rules to guide us to good interaction design.
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14 Must-read Web Design Interviews
"Below is the list of 14 interviews with web design and development experts. The interviews are nicely confined, and are themselves informative and... more »
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Build An Incredible Login Form With jQuery
This tutorial will teach you how to build a beautiful login form with jQuery.
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Qi4j: REST EntityStore and SPARQL EntityFinder = rich client web apps!
From my work on SiteVision I've become quite fond of writing rich clients using applets or JavaWebStart, with Swing, and then connect back to the... more »
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3 Worthwhile Alternatives to the Pie Chart
Since the above pie chart is making some of you cringe in agony (although I can't imagine why), let's take a look a few alternatives for the pie chart... more »
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Windows based programmers... Stop hating CLIs (Command Line Interfaces)
If you are a unix/linux lover, this article may not be of interest to you, because you should be knowing the power of CLIs in *nix operating systems.... more »
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Factories, Builders and Fluent Interfaces
Last week I started working on very short proof of concept with a team that I am currently coaching at a short term insurance company. We hit a very... more »
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Learn How To Develop For The iPhone
I'm going to show you how to build an alternate page and style sheet for the iPhone and iTouch. We will cover how to detect if the user is using an... more »
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65 Excellent jQuery Resources (tutorials,cheat sheets,ebooks,demos,plugins…)
Below, there are 65 Excellent jQuery Resources (tutorials,cheat sheets,ebooks,demos,plugins…). Hope they help.
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The Perils of FUI: Fake User Interface
As a software developer, tell me if you've ever done this: 1. Taken a screenshot of something on the desktop 2. Opened it in a graphics... more »
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Why Have a Start Button to Shutdown Windows?
The other day I was watching David Pogue’s presentation When it comes to tech, simplicity sells on Ted Talks about good and bad UI design, which... more »
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99 Resources for Web 2.0 Design
This post was originally published a while ago, however, almost all of the resources mentioned are still relevant. Since this post was published we’ve... more »
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77 Resources to Simplify Your Life as a Web Designer
77 Resources to Simplify Your Life as a Web Designer.....
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40 CSS Web Form Style Tutorials For Web Developers
When developing a project it's important to have a good form input structure throughout, most commonly used forms will tend to be Login, Register and... more »
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