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13 December 2011 ·
Some time ago I decided to take up new challenges and next week I am going freelance and starting my small business. I am leaving my company with which I will keep good relationship and where I met some truly great people. However, I feel it is time for me to continue chasing my dreams.
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23 February 2011 ·
There's a popular belief that innovation can only come straight from the mind of a genius and that processes like User Centric Design (UCD) stand in way of it. An innovation might be a sparkle in a mind of a genius, but I would argue that it is a consequence of a very hard, iterative process.
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23 December 2010 ·
Feature-creep or featuritis is a tendency to constantly add features which inevitably leads to complex products that are confusing and hard to use. Features are important - they present a picture of software capabilities and value. However, there is something more important which is usually left out - people.
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18 November 2010 ·
It's always fun to play with jQuery especially when you are trying to recreate something that you enjoy using. One such thing is window chooser in Opera Mobile browser. Here's how to create very similar effect with jQuery.
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25 August 2010 ·
Many web designers lack empathy, an essential characteristic needed for good design. Seems as if they are focused on beauty and satisfying clients' needs - where the client is often mistakenly considered to be an actual user. A premise for good design is becoming an advocate for the users.
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21 July 2010 ·
We all know how important form validation is. Users must provide required information, users must provide information in specific format, user must... Right. But imagine the scenario in which user saves a form even if validation fails. That is, when inappropriate formats are provided or required fields are left blank. Sounds ridiculous?
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17 June 2010 ·
Seems as if modal overlays are quite popular on the Web lately. They became a common way to show forms, feedback and other content. But despite the fact that overlays are popular and easy to implement they should be used carefully.
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02 June 2010 ·
I was in the middle of writing a long text in one online web application (made in Silverlight) when my browser crashed. I lost the most of what I wrote just because the Silverlight application didn't have one simple function - autosave.
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23 May 2010 ·
Although many will argue that Microsoft products are an example of a good design, Minibar was one of design refreshments that came out with the Office 2007. It is a variation of a toolbar that exposes context-related functionality. See how to create it.
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10 May 2010 ·
As I mentioned before, forgiveness is very important principle in UI design. But error prevention is even more important - whenever possible try to prevent an error instead of recovering from it. Preventing an error to happen is known as Poka-Yoke principle.
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04 May 2010 ·
After publishing the article Redesign process of JankoAtWarpSpeed, I was criticized by some people that I used Scrum "improperly". But I don't believe that one process (or, more formal - a methodology) can be used in all situations.
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06 April 2010 ·
I am fascinated with how much you can do with so little using CSS3. See how to create Windows 7 start menu wit CSS3 and a few icons.
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26 February 2010 ·
Many agree that tables are a phenomenon in user interface design: they are very important parts of user interfaces but often overlooked. Here are some of the patterns that can help in creating less evil tables.
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