I’m trying to design a web interface in which users pick particular “items” and set one of them as default. The textbox for searching uses autocomplete to find the matching item. I’ve come up with the following design to allow the user to …
While developing a web application that presents monetary data for a variety of locales, I am inquiring about the differences of currency formats. In particular, I’d like to know when it is appropriate to use currency codes, either in addi…
I am modelling a selection from a product matrix. The customer envisions this as a series of dropdowns, which progressively filters what is available in a subsequent dropdown.
So for example, the first dropdown could be of "Vehicle Ty…
I’m building a site with items that can be reviewed, and users can vote whether or not reviews are helpful to bubble the best to the top Amazon-style.
Amazon, Yelp, and almost everything else I could find shows the number of people who fou…
I’m writing a web page that will allow people to rate “objects”. I was thinking of giving users the classical 5 star rating… but then I remembered the like/dislike approach and how YouTube changed from the 5 stars to the like/dislike met…
There is nothing worse than coming across a website with paragraphs that span the width of your screen resolution. They are usually so hard to read, I don’t even bother.
A lot of web designers use generic grid and column systems, but I do…
I’m trying to design a portion of a web interface that allows users to tag items and view all items with a tag or set of tags on them – think gmail, if gmail allowed you to easily select multiple tags to view all messages with all of those…
I’ve been a developer for over 6 years, mainly working in the web context, and generally distributed applications, services, and also front-facing apps. I got into programming originally through Interactive Design studies back in universit…