What happens to an interface when there’s too many cooks in the kitchen. Let’s face it, when you work in house everyone on a project has an agenda. Marketing, tech, ad sales, everyone has their own set of demands they want met. This is why I believe any site with a lot of stakeholders absolutely […]

Using Definition Lists to mark up forms. Interesting approach. Personally, having my label and field in the same list item is more flexible for most of my purposes, but this might be useful for something else.

Garrett Dimon gives eBay’s forms a much needed face-lift in this case study. Points of emphasis, using a blur to determine if your form has a clear hierarchy, better field and label relationships and bolder headers. Towards the end he mentions possibly removing the date of birth field.
I don’t know why eBay has chosen […]

The iPhone Human Interface Guidelines have been posted by Apple. Probably the most interesting read you’ll have all week. Most of the principles covered are applicable to any sort of interface design.
You can’t assume that users have the time (or can spare the attention) to figure out how your content works. Therefore, you should […]