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Jul 28, 2006
Usability

Web Usability Pet Peeve #92: Overriding Common Accelerators

I am a huge, huge, huge advocate of correctly supporting mnemonics and keyboard shortcuts throughout your application. It was, for this reason, that I was very excited when I first learned that you could do the exact same thing for web pages. Mova...

Jul 27, 2006
Video Games

The Unintended Consequences of Software Features

I just found this on YouTube: it’s a video of a new feature with unintended consequences in the video game, MLB 2k6. Basically, a player can jump up to the top of a stadium wall to catch a ball that would otherwise be a home run. Unfortunately, th...

Jul 27, 2006
Web Design

Zen and the Art of CSS

I’m sure this will come as old-hat to everyone out there, but on the off-chance you’ve never seen it, I highly recommend checking out and playing around with the CSS Zen Garden. CSS Zen Garden is a demonstration of what is achievable through corre...

Jul 26, 2006
Web Design

Information Density and Current Trends Towards Minimalism

The always-fantastic Coding Horror blog discusses Edward Tufte and his crusade for information density: These days, you rarely see screens packed densely with content and hundreds of links, but that's what Tufte seems to be asking for. We even ma...

Jul 26, 2006
Windows

Microsoft Design?

Generally, most people don’t associate great design with Microsoft, but the company has been making great strides in this area for the past few years. I just found a link to the official Microsoft Design website through Jensen Harris this morning,...