In 2014, the University of Calgary rushed out a project that changed how we managed campus IT accounts. Technical details aside, this means the way that user passwords were stored and used also changed. In one swift motion , a decade of home brewed IT tools were made obsolete and replaced with a shiny new enterprise grade …
Usability
On Confirmation vs Undo (in Web Applications)
This is a well discussed topic and nothing groundbreaking here, yet today I was in a situation where the group was so accustomed to confirmation boxes they almost seemed to crave them. Let’s say you were deleting a record from a database. This is a really scary operation, so we should ask the user if …
Readable Design Documents
Anyone ever read branding guidelines? If you pasted someone else’s logo on your website or referenced a product by name, you should probably have read their branding guidelines. Unfortunately, most branding guidelines comes in the form of multi-page PDFs that outline strict rules about where you can use their logo, how you can use their …