• Stuff Happens

  development, thoughts  · 25 Sep 2013

  Sometimes, all of the planning in the world won’t stop a problem from occurring. Recently a piece of code deployed to production. It took a perfectly functional process and rendered it inert, no longer saving data that used to save. It wasn’t horrible, being caught fairly early, but people got upset.

• Anatomy of a Shopping Cart: A Usability Study

  development, ajax, usability, ui, ux  · 12 Jun 2012

  This little writeup is a usability study of cart layout and process in general. So many apps today are still sporting the 1999 click-and-reload interface, and times have changed. Users are tired of the old way, embracing the new, and if you’re behind the times you could be losing clients fast.