We recently used Balsamiq Mockups to redesign a set of web pages. I’ve done a lot of designs on paper, in HTML, using FrontPage and even Visio before, and now I know, I was doing it the hard way every time. Balsamiq offers a way to present user interface designs quickly and easily. It has […]
Over the years I’ve been a member of a few internet forums. At least two of them have been through serious ‘upgrades’ and I thought that their mistakes may serve as a good reference for any future software upgrades that I am involved in. Lessons Learned: Test, a lot. Forum A lost members rapidly because […]
In the words of their inventor, Edward Tufte, sparklines are “data-intense, design-simple, word-sized graphics”. They are intended to be used in line with text, like this one which shows you the Nasdaq index for the month of September 189.6175.9, or this one that shows a comparison of two series. Rather than giving you a single data-point, […]
