The first step in improving the user experience of a product, service or website is understanding its users. The best way to understand what users want and what keeps them busy is still to seek them out and listen to … Continue reading
In solving some of the problems needed to create my pure CSS progress bars with rounded corners, I ended up using a combination of two backgrounds: a background-color and a background-image. Unfortunately, images are rather static, inflexible things. They require … Continue reading
I love rounded corners as much as the next guy and CSS3 makes it really easy to use them on the web. Unfortunately, there are some weird quirks and bugs that can spoil the fun. This week, I wanted to … Continue reading
I’m currently working on making Nestoria more friendly to users on mobile devices and one of the biggest challenges was easily testing on real mobile devices. This is important, because there is no such thing as mobile WebKit. Apple provides … Continue reading
Silently autoupdating software is amazingly powerful, but also incredibly difficult to pull off without either stifling innovation or estranging users. I was reading this post by Paul Irish on browser market pollution, or how IEx will be the new IE6. … Continue reading
Google has ceased to be a search company years ago. It is now an advertising agency, a “bank” a app hosting, email and intranet provider, with their own office suite. The list goes on, but what it all boils down … Continue reading
I’ve always been an avid user of delicious for my bookmarks. I love the way I can just type away on tags, without having to worry about cataloguing my bookmarks in hierarchical folders. Moreover, my bookmarks are stored online, so … Continue reading
Afgelopen maandag was ik bij Mobile Monday #10. Zoals ook de vorige keren was er naast het scherm met de slides van de spreker ook een tweede scherm met daarop een live stream van alle tweets met de hashtag #momo. … Continue reading