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Please, think about the UI
Posted: 18th Aug 2009
After recently trying to book some flights on a very major airline I was very put off by the poor User Interface design and got very frustrated. Poor navigation, forms that were clumsy and awkward, error messages that had no Back button and therefore resulted in me having to use the Back button on the browser and then losing data - not to mention having my session expire!
User Interface design is very important, far more important than whether your logo looks cool or not. The user journey needs to be smooth, clearly informed with obvious buttons, nice forms that have descriptions by the form elements, and tested thoroughly! C'mon major companies that should have budgets for these kind of things!
As Seth Godin puts it:
Don't get stressed about your logo...
Get very stressed about user interface and product design
Jquery Form Validation - Checking Fields
Posted: 8th Apr 2009
TECHY WARNING: Warning this post has 'techy-talk' be warned.
We thought we would share a cool way of checking form fields in Jquery. Just set the submitButton and the requiredFields variables and you are on your way. It is really useful for for validating a form before sending the data to the server (and you should always check before AND after sending the form don't forget!). This could be made in to an even neater, packed function if I had time, maybe later.
Have a play...
CodeIgniter - Custom errors using the Form Validation class
Posted: 4th Mar 2009
TECHY WARNING - This post has techy-talk, be warned
Recently I've been using the new Form Validation Class on CodeIgniter and though overall it is much better than the previous validation class I found a gripe with it recently when trying to add custom error messages using the "validation_errors()" helper.
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