Usability Quote of the Day

October 15, 2008

The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect - to help people work together - and not as a technical toy. The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies. We develop trust across the miles and distrust around the corner. -- Tim Berners-Lee, Weaving The Web   (via interaction-design.org)
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Thursday, January 12, 2006

AJAX Design Pattern: Read/Write Div

Keeping the display clean until more is needed ...

"A new AJAX convention cropping up in a few places, one that is easy to implement and has real benefit to end users. I haven’t found a description of it anywhere, so I thought I’d write it up here.

The basic idea is that user controls (typically for editing the displayed data) should be hidden from the user until needed. At "rest", an area of the screen displays information in read-only fashion. On clicking an "edit" button, the div expands to display the widgets for changing the data."   continued ...   (Via Jonathan Boutelle)

Display Closed. - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics

Display Closed.



Display Open. - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics

Display Open.

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