Tom Walters

Tag: UX

  • Animate a site’s loading

    Note: This article has been marked for a quality review and will soon be updated. There are a lot of things we can do as web designers to improve the UX of a site, much of the time subtle animations can be added to add a bit of finesse to a page, and a new…

  • Spice up your Hyperlinks!

    Now the words ‘hyperlink’ and ‘sexy’ rarely frequent the same sentence in my household, but something which appears to have come into fashion lately (namely I’m using it ;)) is the fading in of the hover state on hyperlinks. So instead of simply specifying the :hover state in your CSS, you use JavaScript or CSS3…

  • Building a Confirmation Dialog in JavaScript

    Note: This article has been marked for a quality review and will soon be updated. A common feature of desktop applications is that when a user prompts a potentially destructive action, the program will display a confirmation dialog to ensure that the user doesn’t go and do something silly. To do this we will use…

  • Adding subtle user feedback

    We all hate waiting for websites to load right? It’s annoying to watch images download and wait for Twitter streams to render isn’t it? Well it’s a fact that 99% of websites have this issue – that is, that load time is about 1 or 2 seconds. Now for companies like Google it isn’t an…