Category Archives: Ideas
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
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
Improving Search Suggestions – Part 4
One of the things I like about Google’s Chrome browser is the simplicity of the user interface. It has only a few icons and some of the standard interaction have been combined. As the web grows in complexity there will … Continue reading
Corporate Intranet Searches
The previous posts described a design for a single entry point web content search feature. The same design could also be used in a corporate Intranet for searching corporate web applications, such as a personnel directory or list of forms. … Continue reading
Improving Search Suggestion Interaction – Part 3
In the previous post I presented an idea for letting a person quickly select specific types of Google searches from the Google Internet search field. But Google searches may not give me everything I may possibly need. What can we … Continue reading
Improving Search Suggestion Interaction – Part 2
In my previous post I presented an idea for improving search suggestion interaction for Internet search engines like Google and Yahoo. But it would be nice if our search could somehow incorporate a broader set of searches that people might … Continue reading
Improving Search Suggestions Interaction
The search term suggestion feature of Google and Yahoo has recently emerged as a useful technique for helping people find what they want. The major browsers are getting into the act by providing search suggestions in the browser location bar. … Continue reading