Archive for May, 2009

May 22

The power of defaults in our choices

Posted by Bryan Clark
Filed under Design | 3 Comments

My bus ride home trippled in time last night because of some construction so I had the opportunity to watch this TED talk. This really drove home the power of defaults in user interface choices and how it is the responsibility of good designers to default to the right behaviour, especially when the options are [...]

May 14

Negotiate with your users

Posted by Bryan Clark
Filed under mozilla | 9 Comments

I always advocate against simple (and especially modal) dialogs in user interfaces because they aren’t there to help the user get past the problem, more like work through the emotional issues the software is having. Dialogs aren’t the real evil, though they usually aren’t great, it’s the lack of real negotiation.  In the book Getting [...]

May 11

question: dualbutton css

Posted by Bryan Clark
Filed under mozilla, questions | 6 Comments

How do you make the dualbutton always appear like the last two sets of screenshots (as it does on hover)? I’m looking to make dualbuttons always show their dropdown button with a real button like look.  This dualbutton reply button is  going to land in Thunderbird 3 soon and I’d like the style to look [...]