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This idea started with an accidental discovery: if you put a CSS perspective on a scrollable <DIV>, then 3D elements inside that <DIV> will retain their perspective while you scroll. This results in smooth, native parallax effects, and makes objects jump out of the page, particularly when using an analog input device with inertial scrolling.
via Making Love to WebKit — Acko.net.
The web, early 2012. Scroll s-l-o-w-l-y.
Tags: state of the art
Your design might be too minimal if:
You’re using minimalism for the wrong reason
If you’re sacrificing usability in any way
via Minimalist Web Design: How Minimal is Too Minimal?.
My kind of designs!
7-inch tablets have either a glorious future or will fail miserably. I doubt there’s a middle path in their future.
via Kindle Fire Usability Findings (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox).
So will the Fire sell in the millions? or will it be a fire sale?
Tags: usability
I wonder, Do you recognize your organization somewhere on the pyramid?
via The Corporate Curmudgeon: THE DAUTEN HIERARCHY OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE.
All check boxes have labels, but not all check boxes use label tags to dis play their labels. This can cre ate click ing prob lems for users. Check boxes are small and hard to tar get. With out the label tags, users can’t click the check box labels to tick the check box. Instead, they’re forced to tar get and click the small check box itself, which can cause user frus tra tion, espe cially for motor-impaired users.
via Why Your Form Checkboxes Should Always Use Label Tags – UX Movement.
Obviously, tablets might become truly personal devices in the future as competition drives down the prices. But for now, you should assume that youre designing for a multi-user device. For example, users might be reluctant to stay permanently signed in on an app, and theyll still forget their passwords. Its also important to design recognizable application icons so theyll stand out in the crowded listings of several users apps.
Tags: usability
Mainly, though, let’s stop cramming information into tiny peepholes. Optimizing the UI for the available screen space is a key strategy for improving usability (and thus lifting your conversion rates).
via Utilize Available Screen Space (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox).
Face it. The web has gone mobile (and small).
Nielsen’s words on Mega Drop-Down Navigation are informative as well.
A study of how University of Washington graduate students integrated an Amazon Kindle DX into their course reading provides the first long-term investigation of e-readers in higher education. While some of the study’s findings were expected – students want improved support for taking notes, checking references and viewing figures – the authors also found that allowing people to switch between reading styles, and providing the reader with physical cues, are two challenges that e-readers will need to address in cracking the college market.
Whilst a truncate table operation is underway a lock mutex around the table is created to ensure data consistency; if using innodb file per table the physical .ibd file must be removed which is a painfully slow operation under ext3.
Tags: data warehouse, MySQL, performance