As a brief experiment, I animated the radio waves in the GS BS logo using Scalable Vector Graphics or SVG. I used a JavaScript library called Raphaël.
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July 23rd, 2010
Schedule your stuff with Google Calendar
A while back, my wife and I had trouble scheduling stuff and regularly had scheduling conflicts … “Oh, I forgot about the graduation party that day.” … “I told my sister we could babysit.” … “I forgot your brother is in town that weekend.”
And then we found Google Calendar. Life has never been the same, for there has never been anyone like Google Calendar ever in the world. I have used it almost daily for the past four years.
January 20th, 2010
Good Form!
A few of us at GS Design had the opportunity to attend An Event Apart, a conference for Web developers with a focus on best practices in Website development. One of the many speakers there was Luke Wroblewski. Luke’s experience was in Web form development for companies like eBay, Yahoo!, and others.
The big take-away was that forms require a lot of work to do right. A completed form starts a conversation, and a good form experience can make the difference between connecting with a new site visitor – or turning them away forever. Here’s the business reason from Wroblewski’s book Web Form Design: Form redesigns have been shown to result in a 10-40% increase in completion rates.
What makes for a good form? This is a subject on which books have been written, but here are a few basics:
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