7 Web Application Design tips, tutorials, techniques & resources
CSS Message Box collection
"Message boxes are useful elements to display status messages after or during a specific user request. I want to share with you a collection of some simple CSS styles you can apply to your message boxes (clean, solid, iconized, alternated rounded borders, tooltip)."
Sign Up Forms Must Die
"You arrive eager to dive in and start engaging and what’s the first thing that greets you? A form. We can do better. In fact, I believe we can get people engaged with digital services in a way that tells them how such services work and why they should care enough to use them. I also believe we can do this without explicitly making them fill out a sign-up form as a first step."
User Interface Design - Taking the Good with the Bad
"The key to any successful marriage is compromise. While things may not always go the way you want them to, in the end, coming to an agreement helps you to achieve a greater good. The same holds true for user interface (UI) design. After all, what else is the user interface if not a marriage of form and function?"
Web app form design
"Ryan Singer delivers a presentation on creating web forms that delight your users"
Usability for Rich Internet Applications
"Rich Internet applications can be faster, more engaging and much more usable. However, this improvement is not without its downside—RIAs are much more difficult to design than the previous generation of page-based applications."
User Interface Design for Web Applications
"The design choices one makes for a Web-based application are often quite different from those of a content-based Web site. Why? Because they are used for different purposes."
Rethinking Application Design
"I’ve realized that the basic corporate design model for Web and application design is broken. This article will share some of the conclusions I’ve drawn and propose some better approaches for designing successful applications."