If your alert message needs instructions, you’re doing something wrong. This is what you get when you ignore the poor usability warning signs.

The heart and soul of the reminder application is going to be creating reminders and viewing a list of current reminders. There will also have to be some auxiliary features like viewing all (not just current) reminders, editing reminders, and deleting reminders. This will all also be hosted on a server, and that means accounts–signing [...]

I’ve had this idea floating around for a while that it would be nice to have something to remind me to do things that I do infrequently–things like change the oil in my car, change the air filters, go to the doctor for check-ups, etc. These are the sorts of tasks that need to be [...]

Sort of as a follow-up to the previous post on html5 and css3, I’ve been applying css3 to various situations to see how it does.  I’ve run across a couple examples where box-shadow in particular doesn’t quite manage what I need it to do, this post will present the workarounds I found. I’ll be referring [...]