What are best practices for blocking UI when application is busy
I’m writing a web app using Twitter Bootstrap with PHP on server side.
My app makes regular ajax requests via jQuery and i want to disable certain parts of the UI until the server completes processing and hands back the control to Client-S…
The Redesign: Questions To Ask Before You Start
Redesigning your application the right way means putting pieces in place to make sure you can change culture and keep your job. Doing it wrong can get you fired or kill a company.
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Update vs Modify vs Change – Create vs Add – Delete vs Remove
I am working in a human resources management application and I have to often work with the creation/deletion/updating of people from the web interface.
I’d like to know whether Update, Change and Modify have slightly different meaning and…
Rapid content audits, can this be done?
Content audits although immensely dull are essential to understanding an existing websites content. Content audits for larger sites where you’re capturing each page and analysing the content page by page is obviously very time consuming. I…
How to stop car lights being left on
The lights in cars can be a very frustrating experience for users. Most of us who drive have left our lights on and quite a few of us will have come to our cars to find them completely unusable for their primary purpose because of somethin…
responsive website min-width?
In my experience most responsive websites don’t have min-widths so when resized to a tiny size (say a 100px window) the content screws itself up and becomes illegible.
example: http://alistapart.com/article/responsive-web-design
I love t…
How important is it to eliminate clicks?
Does anyone know of research that shows users rate applications as more responsive or easier to use when paths within the application require fewer clicks? Is it more important to eliminate unnecessary clicks than to create an application …
"Expiry date" or "Expiration date" label
What is the best form label to use for the credit card expiry date (during a checkout process on an eCommerce website)?
I’ve done some research and noticed that some sites use ‘Expiration date’ and others use ‘Expiry date’.
Which is bet…
Best practices for application alerts
As a developer, I’m always confused about the three basic values of any application’s alert:
Title
Message
Dismiss button
What should be placed in those 3 values? FAQ for myself:
Should the title be a resume of what happened or where…
A standard / benchmark test for user familiarity or proficiency with computer technology in usability testing
When conducting usability testing, a variable that comes up is the competence or familiarity of different users with Internet or software application technology. It seems strange to compare different usability studies and results if there …