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Two Delightful New InfoGraphic Applications
I generally like to check the weather online every few days so I installed the Weather Channel Chrome application. As you can see from the following screen capture it’s a clean looking application that initially presents a summary of the … Continue reading
IGUI – Info Graphic User Interface
As newspapers struggle to find a niche in our increasingly online life they have created some stunningly powerful infographics that visually illustrate and simplify the complexities of issues and events. Here is an example of a Washington Post infographic that … Continue reading
Improving the Date Picker Calendar Widget Design
The pop-up date picker calendar has become the universal standard widget for entering a date. Most show the current month and some show the current and next month. They are a very convenient way to select a date because you … Continue reading
Delight Your Users with … Questions
There is a page on my Employer’s Intranet that has received close of 500 comments over the past year or so. The vast majority of these are highly complimentary and use words like ‘love’ and ‘great’. Many of the comments … Continue reading
Tabbed Table Select Columns Enhancement
The previous post provided code for using tabs to navigate the content of a multi-column table. It includes a feature that lets a user select the columns to display. If there are many columns in the table, the list will … Continue reading
Using jQuery for Usable Multi-column Tables
It appears that people generally do not like horizontal scrolling. This creates a design dilemma for presenting information in multi-column tables. A possible alternative is to hide and show groups of columns with a tab design. This code lets you … Continue reading
JavaScript for Dynamically Adding Thousand Separators to Numeric Fields
Quickly, what’s this number: 100000 Is it 1,000 or 100,000 or 1,000,000 So how long did it take to figure out it was 100,000? Was it instantaneously or did you need to count the number of zeros? Imagine having a … Continue reading
Decision Maker – Easily build decision guides and trouble shooters with this jQuery script.
View example Business processes are getting increasingly more complex. To help people perform processes correctly we often resort to training or providing some type of reference material. that’s typically on the corporate intranet. Since the processes are often governed by … Continue reading
Usable Long Content Pages using jQuery
When developing content for a corporate Intranet it can be difficult to avoid creating long scrolling content pages. Dividing the content into a number of smaller pages doesn’t always work because it can make users pogo-stick through a number of … Continue reading
Creating Usable FAQs with jQuery
I have to admit that I’m not a fan of FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions). They are very text heavy and a little overwhelming. It just seems like you have to do a lot of reading to find the question and … Continue reading