Smart thinking (as always) from Jason Grigsby. This time he’s asking the right questions about context in the age of tiny screens (smartwatches) and giant ones (smart TVs).
The Best Of The Internets
On the Device Context Continuum
Towards a New Information Architecture
Fantastic history of “Information Architecture” as a practice, with an eye for where it’s heading. Great work Christina Wodtke!
How to write a great error message
This is a fantastic rant from Thomas Fuchs on error messages and how to do them well (with lots of examples of how not to write error messages).
Mobile 2015: UI/UX Trends
A nice overview of small screen design trends with backgrounds as to why these approaches work well.
7 Ways Form Accessibility Can Boost Conversions
There’s some really good forms advice in here. Just be careful when manipulating the tab flow.
Where to Put Your Search Role
Not on the form. Noted.
Making radio buttons and checkboxes easier to use
Experiments in radio and checkbox resizing. It’s a sad state of affairs. The small hit targets are why I recommend adding negative margins above and below the label, coupled with equal padding top and bottom. It’s a recommendation from my forms talk that I will write up soon.
A fictional conversation about progressive enhancement
A cheeky fictional conversation about progressive enhancement, though I might take it a bit further: If you want to edit the rich document and JavaScript enhancements aren’t available, there’s always Markdown or Textile or any other plain text pseudo-formatting language. Where there’s a will…
Accessibility - Beyond the Screen Reader
This is a fantastic overview of the accessibility considerations you should be making. Most are far more important than screen reader support.
V8 Release 4.6
New ES6 (ECMAScript 2015) features rolling out in V8: spread and new.target. Also: Reduced jank.