I lurve WordPress’ distraction-free writing interface. It’s quite possibly the best user-facing “feature” of the last few releases, and it wins by taking complexity away.
Tag Archives: usability
beaucollins/wp-teleport – GitHub. Quick launcher for the WordPress admin available as a Chrome extension or Safari plugin. UI/UX is quite similar to Alfred App. Nice work, Beau Robert Collins.
News sites as “angry fruit salad on meth”
I made the mistake of going to a website today. It’s understandable, of course — everybody does it, from time to time — and I’m sure I’ll forgive myself, eventually. I don’t mean just any website, of course, I mean a publication. A place where… Continue reading →
Seeing real users interact with your software is a humbling, eye-opening experience every developer should experience on a regular basis.
One of my roommates switched from WordPress to Blogspot to Weebly because “[Weebly] is so easy to use… and that’s the only reason.” Nooo…
Unrealized ideas from my time at the J-School
All of the features, functionality, and applications I planned out but never had the time to build.
Short list of goals for topic pages on this here website:
- Title and short descriptive introduction to the topic
- Access most recent content based on type but have it presented in a non-stream sort of way
- Show activity on the topic over time
- Allow for search within the topic
Little big details: RTM for iPhone
Remember the Milk’s Quick Add interface sprouted really useful meta prompts since the last time I used it. Incredibly function, and definitely inspiration for other contexts.