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Combined log in / sign up form - Terrence Wood

Combined log in / sign up forms - Terrence Wood

Free IP address geolocation tools - Terrence Wood

Building mobile first allows teams to utilize this full palette of capabilities to create rich context-aware applications instead of limiting themselves to an increasingly dated set of capabilities. Heavy mobile data users projected to triple to one billion by 2013. Mobile internet adoption has outpaced desktop internet adoption by eight times. Smartphone sales will surpass worldwide PC sales by the end of 2011. - Terrence Wood

Why are native mobile applications such a desirable user experience? Three factors come to mind: 1. Applications by their nature are task focused. They consist of optimized user interfaces for handling certain types of actions and data - a singular focus on actions. 2. Mobile devices also force software designers to focus on only the most important data and actions in an application. There simply isn't room in a 320 by 480 pixel screen for extraneous, unnecessary elements. You have to prioritize. This naturally forces out unnecessary elements. 3. Applications can leverage the rich set of capabilities of a mobile operating system. Web sites have a long way to go to deliver really rich UI. - Terrence Wood

Template suggestions in Drupal 5 - Terrence Wood

Conversation abound about plist xml vs plist binary vs touchjson performance for ihone data transfer - Terrence Wood

3 design tips to ensure content below the fold is seen: (1) Less is more – don’t be tempted to cram everything above the fold. Good use of whitespace and imagery encourages exploration. (2) Stark, horizontal lines discourage scrolling - this doesn’t mean stop using horizontal full width elements. Have a small amount of content just visible, poking up above the fold to encourage scrolling. (3) Avoid the use of in-page scroll bars - the browser scrollbar is an indicator of the amount of content on the page. iFrames and other elements with scroll bars in the page can break this convention and may lead to content not being seen. - Terrence Wood

Independent study by Equation Research finds consumers are disappointed with the performance of the mobile web. Websites are too slow to load, frustrating users to the point that over half said they would never return to the site in question. - Terrence Wood

If you figure a conservative 24 month average replacement cycle for smartphones, then the entire market for browsers turns over every two years. And that’s the historical view. An increasing percentage of smartphone owners now receive regular software updates that provide new browsers even faster. What matters then is how old the WebKit version in a particular firmware is and how prevalant that firmware is in the real world. As usual, distribution and market share are what matters in determining real-world compatibility, and if that’s a constantly changing secnario, the data should at least reflect how things are changing. - Terrence Wood

A JavaScript library that retrieves and aggregates profiles from across the web - Terrence Wood

online book - Terrence Wood

How to spot the difference. In short, if the terminals aren’t perpendicular, it’s Arial. - Terrence Wood

friendfeeds code base open sourced - Terrence Wood

This custom marker for Google Maps consists of 6 separate images and an image map area defined by an array of x,y pixel coordinates used for capturing image clicks in non IE browsers. - Terrence Wood

HTML 5 cheatsheet - Terrence Wood

Digg deploy Cassandra. - Terrence Wood

the launch of a pilot program to allow members of the public to log in to participating government websites with their credentials from approved independent websites. That's right - someday soon you'll be able to log in to the websites of the Department of Health and Human Services, the National Insititute of Health and other government agencies with your accounts from Google, Yahoo and similar services. Below we discuss the privacy protection steps being taken, the usability issues and the ultimate significance of this announcement.This is a significant move for three reasons. First, it could make securely accessing government websites much easier for users. That would increase use of government services online and could kick off a virtuous circle of increased web-savvy service in response to increased citizen interest. - Terrence Wood

Vancouver passed a motion that directed City Staff to begin sharing the data and information the city collects, to share this data in open standards and to place open source on an equal footing with proprietary software. - Terrence Wood

Human psychology has shown us definitively that learning by doing produces the deepest imprint on our memory and behavior. It is far and away the most engaging way to teach, and this kind of interactive learning produces knowledge rather than just information. - Terrence Wood

the best definition for this kind of marketing is that it is: an aspect of internal operations that has been made transparent to customers and in doing so has become a driver of loyalty or additional business - Terrence Wood

Articles and methods on statistics and measuring UX - Terrence Wood

Exploratory study on expected and experienced usability in electronic consumer products shows that expected and experienced usability can differ significantly under the influence of usage, how expected usability can be influenced, and what the effect of poor experienced usability can be. - Terrence Wood

Multiple IE installer. Ideal for installing into a vm - Terrence Wood

Article showing concrete proof that form can have an impact on cognition in even very subtle ways. - Terrence Wood

AccessColor tests the color contrast and color brightness between the foreground and background of all elements in the DOM to make sure that the contrast is high enough for people with visual impairments - Terrence Wood

WCAG2 accessibility analysis tool - Terrence Wood

Styling buttons using CSS3 - Terrence Wood

The iPhone is one big constraint — no keyboard, small screen, few buttons — so designing applications for the iPhone is an exercise in building smart, simple software. Bloated apps on the iPhone? You won't find many. Most applications pick one feature or group of related features and centralize the product around that central theme. - Terrence Wood

Improve performance by serving static files from a lighttpd server - Terrence Wood