Monthly Archives: February 2007
Conservative Design: Hierarchical Select
This is a post in a series entitled Conservative Design Patterns for Form Elements. For now, I’ll start off with an easy web component that a lot of you have probably already had some experience with. But, strangely enough, it is not included in any of the JavaScript libraries that are out there, that I’ve [...]
Posted in Interface Design Tagged Conservative Design, Design Patterns, Hierarchical Select
Conservative Design Patterns for Form Elements
Have you ever been to a web site that looks as though it has been built exclusively using pre-made bulky widgets cookie cuttered right onto the page? Lovely grid components, sweet over-featured WYSIWYG editors, maybe a Google or Yahoo map thrown in on the page for good measure. Conformist web sites using the conditioning forced [...]
Posted in Interface Design Tagged Conservative Design, Design Patterns
Technorati Spider
This is a link to my brand baby spanking new Technorati Profile. Revel.
Screen Printing, Fake Interfaces Part 1
Why not error messages that tell you when your internet has been disconnected? How about one that tells you when you’ve been logged out (maybe in another window) and allow you to reauthenticate to the server right there? I don’t believe there are any architecture problems with these two ideas.
Posted in Interface Design Tagged Authentication, Offline
Checklist for Web Applications
As the first post in this new category of web development, I’ve decided to keep it simple and post the different components and architecture considerations a developer must consider when making a new application, especially in today’s world of in-page dynamic interaction and the complications that has put on the problems that were considered solved [...]
Posted in Application Design
Conservative Design: Option List