Archive for May, 2010

Hover vs. Click: When to Use & Why

There are many times when designing for interaction where you need to make a decision between hover and click to take action. Your choice can make the difference between a good and bad user experience.

Speeding Up Home Page RSS Feeds

Your home page is a great place to display a custom feed that shows your recent blog posts, tweets and news. If you work in PHP, then there’s a great tool called SimplePie that eases… More

SlideDeck iPad Contest – The Winners are in!

We are extremely excited with all of the entries that came through during the competition. Thank you to all who participated and our awesome competition sponsor, Media Temple, for providing fantastic additional prizes. Also, much… More

New in SlideDeck: Smart SlideDecks for WordPress, Vertical Slides and more!

New Smart SlideDecks! We’ve just made a great new addition to the SlideDeck WordPress plugin called Smart SlideDecks. You can now create automatically generated SlideDecks to place in your WordPress theme, pages or posts. Populate… More

Dropdowns are Back! And Now More Usable!

Using dropdowns in web design has been a longstanding debate in web usability.  I am not here to argue for or against them (however the links at the bottom will). As most things in design… More

Small Pagination Sucks!

Small pagination sucks. It is difficult to see, a pain to use, and can be frustrating to the user. Here are a few tips on making your pagination more usable and friendly.