My Web Design Must-Read List
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the what helped me learn my craft. This post shares many of the sources that have helped me learn everything I know today and the websites I follow to stay up to date.
Don’t Make Me Think
No Justification: Don’t Use Right, Center, and Full Justification on the Web
Last week’s post on formatting in WordPress makes way to this in-depth discussion of a simple topic: text alignment. In nearly every case, don’t do it!
KISSing Your Web Forms
Keep It Simple, Stupid! It’s a bit tongue-in-cheek but still great advice. Let’s apply it to web forms and see what happens.
Five Attributes of a Good Label
If you’ve got a website, read through your menu and see if it passes this excellent five-point evaluation.
Steve Krug on Home Pages and Stakeholders [quote]
A quote about home pages, stakeholders, and Bruce Willis (sort of). You probably know where this is going…
What I Think of Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug
I opened this book on a flight from Seattle to Minneapolis and was pleased to read that Steve Krug wrote Don’t Make Me Think so it could be read from cover-to-cover on an airplane! It’s true and it was awesome. Let me highlight the most important ideas I took from this website usability classic.
Accessibility Is Important Because Other People Are Important
I used to have a long drawn-out explanation for the importance of accessibility. No more! Read my new argument courtesy of Steve Krug’s classic book, Don’t Make Me Think.