Every time “UX” comes out of my mouth or is typed by my fingers, I think, “did I just use that term correctly?” It feels like such a big and loaded term these days, that perhaps the way …
Web animation is one of the factors that can strongly enhance your website’s look and feel. Sadly, unlike mobile apps, there aren’t as many websites using animation to their benefit as you would think. We don’t want to count yours …
Brad points out some UX problems with a variety of apps that are doing things a little outside of the norm when it comes to their login forms. There is already a bunch of things to get right with forms …
I came clean about my long-running and ongoing battle with chronic depression last year in a blog post on my personal site. But don’t worry, things are no worse than they were then and this post is about something else. …
We have to anticipate how the user is going to think or react and everyone is different. Well designed systems can get us close to intuitive. .Even a perfect UI would be less than ideal. The ideal is to have no middleman at all. No translation layer. Historically speaking, this hasn’t been possible because we can’t "speak" to computers.
The breadth and depth of knowledge to absorb in the web performance space is ridiculous. At a minimum, I’m discovering something new nearly every week. Case in point: The Save-Data header, which I discovered via a Google Developers …
We’ve just wrapped up a great series of posts from Chris Ferdinandi on modern form validation. It starts here. These days, browsers have quite a few built-in tools for handling form validation including HTML attributes that can do quite …
Over the last few articles in this series, we’ve learned how to use a handful of input types and validation attributes to natively validate forms.
We’ve learned how to use the Constraint Validation API to enhance the native browser validation …
In the last article in this series, we built a lightweight script (6kb, 2.7kb minified) using the Validity State API to enhance the native form validation experience. It works in all modern browsers and provides support IE support back to …
In my last article, I showed you how to use native browser form validation through a combination of semantic input types (for example, <input type="email"/>) and validation attributes (such as required and pattern).
While incredibly easy and super …
Most JavaScript form validation libraries are large, and often require other libraries like jQuery. For example, MailChimp’s embeddable form includes a 140kb validation file (minified). It includes the entire jQuery library, a third-party form validation plugin, and some custom MailChimp …
