How to Make Websites That Will Require Lots of Your Time and Energy - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
- Install Stuff Indiscriminately From npm
- Pick a Framework Before You Know You Need One
- Always, Always Require a Compilation Step
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CSS Hell - To Hell with bad CSS!
Collection of common CSS mistakes, and how to fix them.
I like the way this is organised: it’s like “code smells” for CSS. Some of them will probably be familiar, in which case, you can dive in and find out what’s going on.
A web of anxiety: accessibility for people with anxiety and panic disorders [Part 1] | The Paciello Group – Your Accessibility Partner (WCAG 2.0/508 audits, VPAT, usability and accessible user experience)
Enumerating the anti-patterns that cause serious user experience issues that don’t get nearly enough attention:
- Urgency
- Unpredictability
- Powerlessness
- Sensationalism
While such intrusions can be a source of irritation or even stress for many people, they may be complete showstoppers for people with anxiety or panic disorders.
I’m looking forward to reading the follow-up post.
(I was going to say I was anxiously awaiting the follow-up post but …never mind.)
Really Bad Design Exercises || Matthew Ström: designer & developer
This is a fun—and useful—way of improving the interview process. The Rubik’s Cube examples brought a smile to my face.
Native Scrolling by Anselm Hannemann
This gets nothing but agreement from me:
For altering the default scroll speed I honestly couldn’t come up with a valid use-case.
My theory is that site owners are trying to apply app-like whizz-banginess to the act of just trying to read some damn text, and so they end up screwing with the one interaction still left to the reader—scrolling.
The slippery slope | 90 Percent Of Everything
The transcript of a terrific talk by Harry on how dark patterns are often driven by a slavish devotion to conversion rates.
I Don’t Want Your Fucking App
Doorslamming.
CSSquirrel : The Savage Beatings Anti-Pattern
CSSquirrel shares my feelings on the email notification anti-pattern.
Time to Kill Off Captchas: Scientific American
Yes, yes, yes! This article does an excellent job of explaining what Captchas are attempting to do and why, therefore, they are so utterly shit.
The mobile web splash screen antipattern [Legends of the Sun Pig - Martin Sutherland’s Blog]
Excellent points, eloquently delivered, on why sites shouldn’t be shoving their native Apps in the face of people who just arrived at their website on a mobile device.
Putting up a splash screen is like McDonalds putting a bouncer on the door, and telling customers who just parked their car and want to enter the restaurant that they should use the drive-through instead.
Web 2.0 Suicide Machine - Meet your Real Neighbours again! - Sign out forever!
A quick way of leaving Facebook, Twitter, Linked In and MySpace. It uses the password anti-pattern but after using this, I guess you won't be needing that password again.
Twitter Status - Phishing scam
And this, boys and girls, is why the password anti-pattern is bad, m'kay?
Don't Give Your Account Passwords Away, a Mission on PMOG
A PMOG mission where players learn about the password anti-pattern.
Twitter Status - Don't Click That Link!
Twitter's promotion of the password anti-pattern bites them on the ass.
Twitter AWESOMENESS!!!
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FatBusinessman.com : On Authentication
David has written an excellent comparison of the two differing mindsets when approaching online authentication. In no uncertain terms, OAuth (or an OAuth style authentication) is right and the password anti-pattern is wrong, wrong, wrong.
Facebook Security Advice: Never Ever Enter Your Passwords On Another Site, Unless We Ask You To
I never thought I'd find myself linking to and agreeing with a post on TechC*nt but it's good to see somebody pointing out Facebook's hypocrisy with using the password anti-pattern.
Mickipedia » Blog Archive » Social Networking Fatigue. I has it.
Good Reads is responsible for one of the most egregious abuses of trust — using the password anti-pattern to spam your address book. Micki has the details.
Coding Horror: Please Give Us Your Email Password
An excellent rant by Jeff Atwood that explains just why the password anti-pattern is such an abhorrent practice: "How did we end up in a world where it's even remotely acceptable to ask for someone's email credentials?"
Yahoo! Address Book API - YDN
You can know use an API (with BBAuth) to get contact Yahoo account contact details. There really is no excuse now for still using the password anti-pattern.