Tag Archives: Conservative Design

Rethinking JavaScript Grids and DataTables

By Zach Leatherman | Published: April 13, 2008
In the world of front end engineering, one must consider the end-user of the interface first, and above all other things. The priorities should not start with development ease, nor external library preference. The priorities should start with the needs of the consumer of your end product. Evolution of your engineering skill is also a [...]
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Conservative Design Example: Hierarchical Options

By Zach Leatherman | Published: March 23, 2007
Welcome, one and all, to the second installment of actual code examples for the Conservative Design series. The decision was made (by me) to rename the component in question from the original Hierarchical Select to Hierarchical Options, due to the fact that the hierarchy can consist of any multiple option component, and is not limited [...]
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Conservative Design Example: Multiple Option List

By Zach Leatherman | Published: March 10, 2007
All of the posts in the Conservative Design series so far have been brainstorming of design patterns. But how about some real life examples, some actual code? Let’s dive in. The first example I decided to tackle was the Option List, specifically the variant that allows multiple options to be selected. Let me start out [...]
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Conservative Design: Command Line Interface

By Zach Leatherman | Published: March 7, 2007
This is another post in the series entitled Conservative Design Patterns for Form Elements. The argument has existed since the dawn of the Graphical User Interface (GUI). Which is better, keyboard-exclusive Command Line or mouse-intensive GUI’s? As more enterprise architectures are moving from terminals to web interfaces for their products, and as time is moving [...]
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Conservative Design: Option List

By Zach Leatherman | Published: February 26, 2007
This is another post in the series entitled Conservative Design Patterns for Form Elements. Next we’ll look at a web component that is almost ubiquitous among user interfaces today, the Option List. The Option List can take any one of the following three forms. Multiple Selections: User can select any number of the options presented [...]
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Conservative Design: Hierarchical Select

By Zach Leatherman | Published: February 22, 2007
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 [...]
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Conservative Design Patterns for Form Elements

By Zach Leatherman | Published: February 22, 2007
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 [...]
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