Designing With Web Standards, 2nd Edition From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Web development book by Jeffrey Zeldman Designing with Web Standards, first published in 2003 with revised editions in 2007 and 2009, is a web development book by Jeffrey Zeldman. The book’s audience is primarily web development professionals who aim to produce design work that complies with web standards. The work is used as a textbook in over 85 colleges. Summary[edit] Written by Jeffrey Zeldman, a leading proponent of standards-compliant web design, Designing with Web Standards guides the reader on how to better utilize web standards pragmatically to create accessible, user-friendly web sites. The book first came out in 2003,[2] and appeared in two revised editions, one in 2007,[3] and another, co-authored with Ethan Marcotte, in 2009.[4] Also in 2009, a companion volume appeared from the same publisher under the title Developing with Web Standards, written by John Allsopp.[5] Critique[edit] Impact[edit] Translations[edit] References[edit]
Patterns in Interaction Design Pushing the boundaries of web design. The ultimate user interfac Designers by nature love to change things. If they aren’t dropping caps to suit a design, they are trying to push the boundaries of what the browser can do. I’ve recently been involved in a project that has needed some different looks for standard user interface elements such as forms. While I wouldn’t normally condone such activity (from a usability point of view, its a bad idea to change standard UI elements) sometimes graphic designers need “appeased.” (read “shut up”). JQuery related I looooove jquery. JNice JNice takes us to a fancy form, with fancy dropdowns. Load Content While Scrolling Demo: If you ever wondered how DZone or WikiSearch manage to allow continuous scrolling, then this is the snippet of Jquery for you. Interface Elements for JQuery Demo Page:
Learning from "bad" UI When Gruber first linked the TripLog/1040 UI by Stevens Creek, I wasn’t kind either. Bright colors, controls seemingly placed at random. It was the opposite of what designers strive for in our circles. The first charge against TripLog is “clutter,” that there’s too much on the screen at once. What does speed have to do with clutter? The trade-offs between elements adjacent in space versus stacked in time are always in the mind of a UI designer. So did Patt put too many elements adjacent in space on one screen when he should have separated them out in time? To answer that we should pull ourselves out of the computer and sink our feet firmly in the customer’s shoes. They want to log miles they just droveThey want to double-check that they logged a recent trip The first is obvious. There’s a very simple reason, which we know because we’ve been selling our Athlete’s Diary software for logging a different kind of mileage for nearly 20 years. Half the time people want to add new entries.
Web Form Design Patterns: Sign-Up Forms, Part 2 | How-To Advertisement Last week we have presented first findings of our web forms survey1. The main objective of the survey was to provide designers and developers with some intuition of how effective web forms are designed; we also presented some guidelines of how an effective and user-friendly web form can be achieved. We have focused on sign-up forms as we wanted to consider further crucial forms (e.g. checkout forms) separately. Please notice that this post is not about checkout forms — that’s a topic for another discussion, we may consider them separately in one of the upcoming posts. 3. In the first part of our research we have considered the placement of the sign-up links and sign-up forms as well as on the visual appearance of forms. 3.1. Apparently, to improve form completion rates designers try to avoid all kind of distractions and offer a clear, unambiguous and simple web form. 3.2. 3.3. If hints and help appear, they appear… 3.4. According to our research, 3.5. 3.6. 3.7. 3.8. 3.9.
Designing Web Interfaces: 12 Standard Screen Patterns 2010 Update- 15 patterns and 80 new examples By Theresa Neil As Bill mentioned in an earlier post, we don’t want to limit this blog to just the principles and patterns found in the book. For that you can check out our Explore the Book section. In the spirit of that, I want to share an additional set of principles and patterns I have been using for RIA design. While the book takes a much more consumer web site orientation, these concepts are central to enterprise application and web productivity application design and more broad than those discussed in the book. This is the first article in a three part series. With more companies turning to RIA frameworks for enterprise software development, these screen patterns are indispensable for product managers, UX designers, information architects, interaction designers and developers. 01. Master/Detail screen pattern can be vertical or horizontal. 02. The Browse screen pattern can be vertical or horizontal. 03. 04. 05. 06. 07. 08. 09. 10. 11. 12.
10 Useful Techniques To Improve Your User Interface Designs | Ho Advertisement Web design consists, for the most part, of interface design. There are many techniques involved in crafting beautiful and functional interfaces. Here’s my collection of 10 that I think you’ll find useful in your work. They’re not related to any particular theme, but are rather a collection of techniques I use in my own projects. Without further ado, let’s get started. 1. Links (or anchors) are inline elements by default, which means that their clickable area spans only the height and width of the text. Obviously, the larger the clickable area is, the easier it is to click on the link because there is less of a chance of missing it. Make sure to also add a healthy dose of padding to the links, because converting a link into a block only affects its behavior and width; adding padding ensures that the link is high enough and has some room to breathe. 2. Attention to every detail is what separates a great product from a mediocre one. 3. All the text is set in black. 4. 5. 6. 7.
Forbes misses the point of the 4-day work week There’s a piece in Forbes called Why A Four-Day Work Week Doesn’t Work that suggests: But there are serious drawbacks. Packing 40 hours into four days isn’t necessarily an efficient way to work. Many people find that eight hours are tough enough; requiring them to stay for an extra two could cause morale and productivity to decrease. As for saving on the cost of commuting, it likely isn’t true. The article is right: More hours in fewer days is not an efficient way to work. The point of the 4-day work week is about doing less work. Besides, very few people work even 8 hours a day. Fewer official working hours help squeeze the fat out of the typical work week. So don’t think 4 days means cramming the same amount of time a shorter week.
Web 2.0 how-to design style guide In this tutorial, I describe various common graphic design elements in modern web “2.0” design style. I then attempt to explain why they work (i.e. why they have become common), as well as how, when and where you might use each element in your designs. It follows on from my Current Style article, and analyses in greater depth the design features of the current “Web 2.0” design style. To learn how to design Web2.0 sites yourself, you must read “Save the Pixel – The Art of Simple Web Design”, which is a comprehensive guidebook to the principles and techniques of Web2.0 design. Summary of Best Web Design Features The list below is a summary of many of the common features of typical “Web 2.0” sites. Clearly, a site doesn’t need to exhibit all these features to work well, and displaying these features doesn’t make a design “2.0” – or good! I’ve already addressed some of these factors in my introductory Current Style article. Best Website Design? Web 2.0 ?! Best Web Design Features 1. When? Always! 2.
Interaction Design Pattern Library - Welie.com Suggest a pattern Have you seen new examples of patterns out there that have not been described on this site? Send me a link to an example and I'll add it to my to-do list. Latest comments Form (Lucas Gwadana) Sometimes the ERROR handling is not explicit enough because when a user makes an... Map Navigator (Marcus) For print pages etc static maps are still relevant. Accordion (dellmre) Ajax accordion samples with source code Autocomplete (Zorg) I believe the name of this pattern to be misleading. Slideshow (Joshua) Slideshows on Homepages can be very beneficial.
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