Who was the user-interface genius…
21 October 2006
Working in UX and UI Design can be fun. It opens you up to just how much bad design is in the world. Here’s a delightful little example from a website I was perusing today.
Entries tagged “Web Design/Programming”
Experiments with Cancelling Javascript Events
1 September 2006
JavaScript suddenly feels like the new CSS. Inspired by my [new book][jsanth1] co-written by one of my [web design idols][tmib] as well as the work I’ve been doing for one of our [clients][boaa], I decided to run some quick tests on [canceling events with JavaScript][js], as it is one part of the language that hasn’t [...]
Rails is for slobs
4 August 2006
<rant> To me, the Ruby on Rails bandwagon is a streetcar that I habitually jump onto and off of as I work. Every time I try to give up PHP, I do so by compromising the quality of the documents I produce. Rails encourages you to create sloppy markup. Without a doubt, the language does [...]
New Look, new content, new … everything
13 July 2006
In May of this year I made myself a promise. I looked at my schedule, at my web site, and at my my life in general and realized I needed a change. Since beginning grad school I had been running on fumes. my whole life seemed fifteen minutes later than the rest of the world. [...]
10 Reasons why Flash should #@$%ing die
8 March 2006
I knew I was in for trouble when I took my job, I just didn’t realize how much. Working for a quirky, cool advertising agency in Ann Arbor in interactive production meant one thing: Flash. Ever since I had started reading about web standards and web programming, I had adhered to the basic mantra: “CSS-and-(X)HTML-are-best-because [...]
