Yo dawg, I heard you like accessibility...
So I put accessibility in your menus so your users can use your site even if they are disabled. Okay, so I suck at yo, dawg jokes. I did, however make a handy little menu script.  It's small. It's functional. It supports accessibility fea ...
2013.09.05
We Live in a Biosphere
You may or may not be aware of this, but when we are interacting with an application, we are entering a biosphere. People always talk about suites of applications as being an ecosystem, but even within the constraints of single app, we are ...
2013.06.27
Monetizing the Web
Today I read an article about Irish newspapers plotting to charge for linking to their content. We've all heard about this before and people seem to get up in arms about it every single time it is mentioned. I think this frustration and ...
2013.01.16
Stop Worrying About Your Followers
Yeah, I said it. Knock it off. Stop worrying about how many people are following you on Twitter. Forget about how many friends you have on Facebook. Quit fussing over whether someone stopped following you or decided they didn't want to ...
2012.11.16
Plan Your Device Strategy
As mobile gains ever more ground and mobile first continues to be knocked around as the design strategy for the web, I encourage people to look at their use statistics.  Although mobile first is a great strategy if you don't have statistic ...
2012.10.01
Herding Cats or Looking at Curated Search
You know what makes Google awesome? Their search algorithm is pretty darn smart. You know what makes DOMZ awesome? Every stinking link on there has been verified by a real, honest-to-goodness human being. You know what sucks about site s ...
2012.09.28
Moving Pieces: Organizing for a Website Overhaul
I've read several different books and articles about web projects and how to make sense of what needs to happen when. Everyone has their own slant and it flavors how the entire process should go. Meanwhile they hope the "magic" in anothe ...
2012.09.24
Project Kickoff: Prepare to Deliver the Goods
We've all been there at some point or another. A new project is just about to start. Everyone in the know is bracing for impact and the people who are going to contribute are blissfully unaware of the monster lurking around the corner. ...
2012.09.21
Information Organization for Seeking Behavior in 5 Steps
Information comes in all shapes and sizes. Some is simple. It's copy that goes on a page. It's an image. It's a sound file. It's a single PDF. It's whatever atomic piece of information you can imagine. Then there is the molecular level ...
2012.02.08
UX: The Break Room Microwave
As is typical with the break room at many offices, we have a microwave. Actually, we have two, but there is one in particular that everyone knows about and avoids. Everyone but me*, that is. It is a machine crafted in the forges of bad ...
2011.10.05
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