I’ve worked with a lot of clients and potential clients over the past 10+ years. Sometimes, in conversation about a project, the client will roll out, oh-so-casually, one of about 10 pat statements that reveal a pernicious and erroneous belief about the process of...
I wanted to make calzones for dinner last night. It was getting late, but in my mind I could already see the ricotta and broccoli filling and smell the melted cheese. I usually buy a blob of dough from one of the local pizza places, but this time I was going to...
The above diagram shows two ways to place a grid on an HTML page. The <TABLE> version on the left is the old school way of managing layout. The web was positively littered with such code before widespread use of CSS (and browser manufacturer adoption of...
In late September Matt D. Smith posted a shot on Dribbble of a mobile interaction pattern that he was working on with the goal of improving mobile form usability. In the shot he’s subtly animating placeholder values so that they change color and...
Reaching global audiences The more I travel, the more I realize there are few things in this world that can be universally translated. "Hello!" works everywhere, that’s a given. Smiles are safely accepted world wide, or at least, in the places on my...
