Microformat schema are sorely needed. Parsing for microformats presently feels…clunky.
Monthly Archives: May 2006
Snazzlefoop
May 30, 2006 – 5:01 pm
According to Google, no one has ever published the word “snazzlefoop,” which I just manufactured to test Languid. (It correctly identified the language as gibberish, which appears to lack an ISO code.)
PersonCode
May 25, 2006 – 5:11 pm
A few years ago I was musing about the need to “tag” online resources with personal identifiers more secure than email addresses and less exclusive than URLs, and thought it might be nice to encourage the use of mailto: URI hashes as in the FOAF spec as “secure enough” personal identifiers. “foaf:mbox_sha1sum” doesn’t exactly […]
Clickhunting
May 25, 2006 – 9:40 am
Sébastien Paquet blogged some lessons from Jared Spool. Besides pointing out that “above the fold” is not as show-stoppingly critical as some believe (but still important, see the “Iceberg effect”), he articulates an important concept in HCI. Users are seeking a destination (either action or information) and it keeps them happy to reward […]
Good UI sighting
May 22, 2006 – 7:05 pm
Technorati has a wonderful solution for shielding users from accidental destructive action: offer an undo link along with the response message:
This is much less disruptive than an “are you sure?” dialog, which are often ignored by confirmation fatigued users. It may seem too subtle, but designers are already tasked with tastefully drawing attention to […]