Category Archives: Articles

  • Is your site mobile friendly?

    Google has recently launched a new site to encourage Mobile Friendly Websites. It’s called GoMo and contains, among lots of useful information, also a test to see how mobile friendly your site is. I tested In usability we trust on … Continue reading →

  • How to balance different interests within a project

    In every web and software project it’s important to find a good balance between different interests in order to produce a successful product or service. My biggest takeaway from reading A Project Guide to UX Design was the idea of … Continue reading →

  • 4 Books on UX that I’ve read recently

    I’ve recently read a few books on User Experience design and this is a run down of them. Although they’re all about UX Design, they’re still very different in their approach to the subject. I list them here, from the … Continue reading →

  • Action-Confirm Design Pattern

    Inspired by the User Interfaces of mobile apps on the iOS and Android platforms, I created a delete button using a design pattern that I’ve named the Action-Confirm design pattern. I created this for a web application that I recently … Continue reading →

  • 45° imagery view in Google Maps

    In the latest version of Google Maps API 3 (version 3.4) a new exciting feature is introduced: 45° imagery in selected cities around the world. This feature will let you see the world from a whole new angle. This change … Continue reading →

  • Extending Google Maps API 3 with libraries

    Google Maps API 3 is streamlined to include just the core functionality needed to create basic maps. It’s architected that way too ensure that the API will load as fast as possible. It’s unnecessary for the browser to download and … Continue reading →

  • Dancing markers

    The Google Maps API team recently added an eye catching new feature to the Google Maps API v3 which makes it possible to animate markers. This feature has been available in v2 for quite some time and occurs when you … Continue reading →

  • Google Maps API 3 – Mobile devices

    A lot of the web browsing these days takes place on mobile devices. Therefore it’s important to know how to design web pages and maps for these. When it comes to incorporating Google Maps on a web page, it’s done … Continue reading →

  • The difference between add(), find() and filter() in jQuery

    There’s a few methods used for traversing the DOM-tree in jQuery that is confusingly similar, well at least they were for me. This article will explain the difference between them and when you should use which one.

  • Google Maps API 3 – InfoWindows

    Using InfoWindows is a brilliant way to display information about a certain location. Since they provides you with a space to put text or whatever HTML you please, they can be used in very interesting ways. In this article, which … Continue reading →