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As I’m designing forms I don’t usually have an issue making then usable or accessible within the limits of the clients budget.
However taking the form to the next level technically can sometimes be an issue. This is exactly what Fancy Form Design by Jina Bolton, Tim Connell and Derek Featherstone is all about, designing and building those great forms on the web.
When I first purchased this book (yes I do purchase my books, they aren’t usually review freebies) I was a little skeptical as to whether this book would have any content in it that would be relevant to me. This is an issue that I’m running into more and more these days.
Tagged: accessibility, design, enhancement, forms, jquery, project-52, review, ui, usability, ux, webdesign
You know in accessibility circles we are constantly telling people using drop down CSS menus that when the menus are not visible we shouldn’t be using display:none to achieve this. We all know this one, right. Just to refresh your memory, remember the display:none rule takes an element assigned right out of the picture completely, for anyone using a screen reader the assigned content will just not “exist”.
This is all well and good. Well that depends, maybe there is a case for the use of display:none afterall.
I was having a discussion the other day with some fellow web designer friends on the skills that you required to be stay in this field long term.
Sure we all agreed you need to at least have the core design skills, understanding of layout, colour theory, typography and the usual tricks of the trade. The platform that you used to deliver your designs was immaterial, be that Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks or the like it didn’t really matter, the end result was what was important. That’s a given.
Tagged: accessibility, career, coding, design skills, freelance, Information Architecture, javascript, usability, user interfaces, user+testing, userexperience, web design
During the week the general terms of User Experience and Usability become interchangeable. Huh?
Well the ISO standard ISO 13407 – the International Standard for Human Centred Design (gets a new number too! – ISO 9241-210) is being side shuffled it seems. Now it’s a standard for User Experience. Is this a good thing?
What is User Experience, really! Well for me it’s all the aspect of the front end user interaction, the emotional response to use the page, the effective usefulness, the accessibility, the audience’s perception of credibility of the site and the directive of the user towards the site’s goal. Usability (ISO 9241-11: Guidance on Usability) on the other hand is just an narrow aspect of this entire user experience
