A good primer to implementing ‘progress indicators’ in interface design. Includes discussion on different uses of progress indicators (not just for store checkouts), best practices, and when not to use them.
Progress Trackers in Web Design: Examples and Best Practices – Smashing Magazine
Here is a post that reports that all is not happy for some with their heads in the clouds.
Is Amazon EC2 Oversubscribed and Suffering from Internal Network Latency?
I am not directly involved with this, but figured I’d raise it in the blog.
There have been various reports from the community of Amazon EC2 users, that [...]
Want to get on the first page of Google’s results? Concatenate and minify those CSS and JS files. Matt Cutts of Google indicates that sometime in 2010 Google may formally incorporate page load speed into its organic search results rankings. It has already been doing this for some time in its quality score index for [...]
ChangeWave’s December survey shows Android is used by 4% of smart-phone users (up 3% from September).
Android is the choice for 21% of people planning to buy a smart-phone in the next 90 days (up 15% from September). Compare this to iPhone’s figure of 28%, down 4 points. Satisfaction of Android users is at 72%, almost [...]
I think the title of this article says it all.
UI Test Automation Tools are Snake Oil
Michael Feathers, the author, is very solid.
It’s a very familiar ‘rabbit hole’ in the industry. … Personally, I think that in this day and age selling them [UI testing tools] is irresponsible. Developing them open-source? Well, let your [...]
I was looking to see if there were any frameworks for HTML 5 and came across SproutCore. It’s an MVC framework and has some similarity to GWT in that it compiles all the code into HTML/JS/CSS that should work across browsers without plug-ins. Also like GWT, it has a bunch of panels, buttons, and controls [...]
An article that questions the theory of making sure all content shows up above the fold.
Over the last 6 years we’ve watched over 800 user testing sessions between us and on only 3 occasions have we seen the page fold as a barrier to users getting to the content they want.
The myth of the page fold: [...]
Java 7 has some smaller syntactic changes that look like they’ll be helpful for your everyday dev
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