Posted by: Wenbo in: ● October 27, 2009
Do you remember every time you forgot to save something and tried to quit some application, an alertbox popped out abruptly with a loud “bang” saying “you haven’t finished saving, are you sure you want to quit?” This is an excellent error-proof mechanism but in some cases, we can improve it with a subtler alert, [...]
Posted by: Wenbo in: ● October 18, 2009
The short answer for this blog is: -webkit-transform: rotate(-90deg); -moz-transform: rotate(-90deg); writing-mode: tb-rl; I’ve been working on a very interesting project and one of the desired feature is a fancy tag cloud with variations in color, size, and text alignment. Tricks with color like depth or text sizes are pretty straightforward; however, the vertical & [...]
Posted by: Wenbo in: ● October 13, 2009
The video clip above is “piano stairs” which is a super fun design with raging success. This design successfully increased the percentage of people taking stairs instead of elevator by an astonishing 66%! Frankly speaking I hope San Francisco or my company can have a piano stairs. Now I would like to discuss on the [...]
Posted by: Wenbo in: ● October 10, 2009
Recently SmashingMagazine has a delightful and interesting post, “10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines” which compiles valuable usability findings and illustrates with screenshots. I would like to tip my hat to the author and I have something to add to this article. The 10 usability findings and guidelines are 1 Form Labels Work Best Above [...]