Category Archives: Articles

  • Stop Building Single Applications and Start Building Eco-systems

    Building and designing software used to be a whole lot easier. Historically we’ve only had to deal with one platform, the desktop computer. At this day and age where most of us have multiple devices and are always connected to … Continue reading →

  • Future Proof Your Methods With Options Objects

    Having methods that takes a lot of arguments can be a real pain. You not only need to remember which arguments to pass but also in which order to supply them. Things gets even worse when you need to add … Continue reading →

  • The Power of Combinators

    When working with CSS it’s easy to get stuck with just the basic selectors. Yes, you can get by using only those but you will write better and more efficient code if you know some of the more advanced ones. … Continue reading →

  • Click Areas for a Brave New Multi-Device World

    Have you ever been browsing a web site on your smart phone or tablet and found that on some sites, the links are so tiny and so tightly packed, that it’s near impossible to click the right one?

  • Design for Clickability

    Making things clickable is done for a single purpose, to get people to click on them. Yet, a lot of times, designers fail to make links or buttons look clickable. In fact, while this might seem like a no-brainer, a … Continue reading →

  • Lean Tribe Gathering 12

    I was giving a talk on Agile UX at Lean Tribe Gathering 12 the other day. It was a nice event which included several great talks that inspired lots of interesting discussions. In my talk, named UX ♥ Agile, I … Continue reading →

  • CSS in the Head

    When optimizing a page you’re obviously thinking about where to add different assets on it. Stuff that is needed up front is placed at the top and stuff that is needed later can be placed further down. After all, we … Continue reading →

  • Separation of Concerns

    Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you have a site where the HTML, the CSS and the JavaScript are all tangled together and it becomes a nightmare to make even the tiniest site-wide change?

  • 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 →