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Adding character to your brand with design – Kulula airways
It’s great when products give you a smile with something unexpected. These delighters are a great way to give your brand character. The painting on this Kulula airplane is good example.
Forever Free: Mailchimp leaves no room for doubt
Have you ever found yourself wondering exactly what a “free account” meant? That’s the kind of friction you really want to avoid in a signup process. Mailchimp’s pricing page does a great job at taking away those kind of doubts. They’ve simply called their free plan The Forever Free Plan. You can’t get any clearer than that.
Displaying post dates: why Twitter forces you to think
Everyone just seems to love the way Twitter displays its post dates: 5 minutes ago, about 9 hours ago, etcetera. It’s one of those examples where everybody just copies everybody without giving it a second thought. And yes, it certainly has a nice tone of voice, and it looks really user-friendly. But it isn’t. It forces you to think.
Fortunately, it’s easy to improve this elapsed time notation. In this post, I’ll explain how to make it work, and I offer a php function that you can just drop into your project.
Reset password? Offer to change it
Great example of offering functionality just when the user needs it: when you forget your Wordpress.com password, you can have it reset. When you log in with this automatically generated password, Wordpress offers you a link to change it…
Twimply: mobile Tweeting made simple.
Are you looking for a Twitter app for your mobile phone? I was. And if you do not have an iPhone, but something like a Nokia N95 like I do, you’ll probably have noticed that good apps are pretty scarce.
That’s why I created Twimply: a free, simple, mobile-friendly Twitter app (with Instapaper and Delicious support). Try Twimply now, or read more about Twimply’s features…
Twibble: How not to launch a paid version of your free app
If you don’t want to lose your users when you’re launching a paid version of your free app, don’t do like Twibble. Yesterday’s launch of their “full version” raised a lot of critique and chased away many existing users. And at the same time, they’ve also reduced the chance of attracting new users.
Make your tables more readable with Value Based Styling
Do you find it easy to check out tables with lots of numbers at the first glance? Probably not. You can make this easier by applying styling to the table, based on the values of the data.
I have created a css/javascript solution that does this automatically. It is ready-to-use, but if you want you, can also customize it easily.
Improving interfaces using Greasemonkey: TweetDeckColorSchemes.com
TweetDeckColorSchemes.com collects all color schemes tweeted by TweetDeck users. However, the way they present the color samples doesn’t make it easy for you to pick a color scheme. So I created a little Greasemonkey script to improve the presentation.
How to unhide passwords – on your site and everywhere else
Masking passwords (i.e. showing ●●●● instead of regular text) can cause several usability problems. A good solution would be to leave passwords hidden by default, but to allow users to switch easily between bullets and text.
I have created some javascript to show and hide passwords on your own site, and a bookmarklet and a Greasemonkey script to help you toggle passwords on any other site on the internet.
How to let jwPlayer plugins interact with other plugins and javascript
When writing plugins for the jwPlayer, you can build them in such a way that they can interact with other plugins and with javascript. In this tutorial, I’ll show how to build a basic plugin and then improve on it in three steps to achieve this.
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