Posts filed under “User Experience Design”
Choosing the Right Words – Web Intents
I ran a small session at UXCampBrighton last weekend about Web Intents. At the end of the session I was hoping for a discussion about the use of verbs in Web Intents, but the questions where a lot more wide ranging. As people grasped the concept they rightfully asked some questions of it. I thought [...]
Web Intents – Gluing web functionality together
There is a new concept forming at the moment called Web Intents. The name is a reference to the Android feature which allows applications to register their “intent” to handle certain types of actions. The screenshot above shows all the options for sharing an image on my Android phone. The underlying application does not have [...]
Draggables
Just finished building the draggables library and uploaded it to its own site. Draggables is a JavaScript library that allows users to exchange data between web sites using drag and drop. It’s heavily based on the HTML5 Drag and Drop and File APIs. It allows data to be exchanged between unrelated sites and between the [...]
Tagging – individualism and simplicity
What I really like about tagging is its freeform individualism and simplicity. Most categorisation systems contain vast centralised taxonomies. These systems tend either to be to overly complicated or not granular enough to be of practical use. Allowing users to create their own taxonomies using single words and then merging them into one public space [...]