Discussion Archive: September 2007

search

Hello all, what are the things that you love or hate about searching
for a contact
from any of the devices you use (mobile, web, desktop)?

I'm designing a contact search feature that should present the same
or similar experience across different devices and I would like to
hear about examples that work well on each device.

For example, I really like the iPhone feature that allows you to
enter just the initials
of the name separated by space (e.g.

Glossary examples

Greetings all:

I am working on a simple glossary for a client, and want to do some
due diligence in generating ideas for it. I thought I'd check with
the list to see if you have examples of good glossaries that you like
and that work well.

Currently the glossary (small, approximately 100 terms) is broken
into context of use categories, with an alphabetical list following
each header. I would like to introduce a model that doesn't require
scrolling down to find the appropriate category, but not obscure the
total terms available.

Microsoft's Ribbon / design decisions

Not to hijack this thread, but this comment brings up an observation and current frustration of mine. I am in the corporate world for the first time (for the last 15 months) and it appears that there is a lot of decision making that occurs outside of the 'what is the best thing for the product/company' paradigm.

I see two things that frequently occur in the corporate executive ranks. The first, what is best fo me and my career (or to keep my job) is probably the most frequent. Frankly, it makes me crazy. When I was running a consultancy, I very much appreciated passion.

HTML validator

Hello friends,
For those who work on web applications, websites and HTML related fields, do
you guys have "HTML validation" as a process? Which HTML validator do you
use?

Your replies are very valuable. Please do reply back.

Thanks
Bhakti