DevelopmentThe Website Obesity Crisis
In conversations with web performance advocates, I sometimes feel like a hippie talking to SUV owners about fuel economy. They have all kinds of weirdly specific tricks to improve mileage. Deflate the front left tire a little bit.
DevelopmentKill all browser plugins
In the last few years all big players on the internet, started adopting HTML5 for video streaming. Like YouTube, Netflix and all kinds of news websites.
DevelopmentAbout labels and icons
In the battle of clarity between icons and labels, labels always win.
Development100 Things You Should Know About People
100 things you should know if you are going to design an effective and persuasive website, web application or software application.
DevelopmentThe $300 Million Button
The number of customers purchasing went up by 45%. The extra purchases resulted in an extra $15 million the first month. For the first year, the site saw an additional $300,000,000.
DevelopmentZebra Striping
Zebra striping—also known as candy striping or half-shadow—is the application of faint shading to alternate lines or rows in data tables or forms.
DevelopmentiPhone orientation detection
Here is the most basic JavaScript to get the iPhone orientation detection going...
DevelopmentValidating email addresses is hard
Validating email addresses is hard...