A better user experience for deleting records
A good user experience doesn’t always mean making things easy for users to do. I was working on a project that involved listing records that users can add, edit and…
How to give and take feedback for web design projects
You’ve done all the leg work. The research was good, the sitemap made sense and the wireframes were spot on. You’ve spent the last 5 days designing in Photoshop perfecting…
High fidelity rapid prototyping
I’ve been on the look out for a good prototyping tool. I want to produce high fidelity prototypes that look good, have some basic functionality and can be quickly iterated…
5 Tips for Designing iPhone Apps in Photoshop
Designing a user interface for iPhone is totally different than designing for the web. Small screen, fixed width, users are on the move etc. I’ve been designing a couple of…
A better way to deal with Internet Explorer conditional styles
For a few years now I’ve been using one or two conditional stylesheets to help with cross browser support, or in other words ‘to help fix Internet Explorer’. But recently…
Redesigning WebDesignire – a showcase of Irish web design
I just relaunched WebDesignire. WebDesignire is a website showcasing “beautiful web design from Ireland and Northern Ireland”. It’s a side project that I initially launched in 2009 but due to…
NI Election 2011: Viewing the party websites on an iPhone
This Thursday 5th May 2011 we have a local election here in Northern Ireland. I wouldn’t be that up to speed on local politics. I’ve a fair idea of what…
How HTML5 element names were decided
I had the pleasure of attending a talk by Chris Mills, creator of the Opera Web Standards Curriculum, which was organised by those Standardistas fellas and Build. Chris was talking…
Experimenting with responsive web design
More and more businesses, web apps and designers are offering up multiple versions of their websites depending on the device and resolution the user is using. Last week I did…
Are you an HTML5 web designer?
HTML5 is quite the buzzword at the minute. A lot of designers and front-end developers will now say “I use HTML5 and CSS3″ rather than just good olde “HTML and…