Introducing Smart Add: a smarter way to add your tasks - Remembe. Tuesday, September 8, 2009 by Emily Boyd We're really excited today to be launching a big update to Remember The Milk — we're calling it the Smart Add edition (you'll see why in a minute!). With this update, we've focused on making it as fast and easy as possible to add your tasks to Remember The Milk (that's the "smart" bit). We've also made a bunch of improvements to the web app to make it easier to manage your tasks once they're in there, and have sped up the app a little too. So, what exactly is new? Smart Add First, we have a new "Add Task" field that's always on screen (you can still jump to it with the keyboard shortcut t). This field is a little bit special: it supports entering all your task's properties in one line, with our new Smart Add feature.
Task Name and Due Date Enter your due date and/or time alongside your task name (include it after the name if you can). Due Date (Alternative Method) Enter ^ followed by your due date and/or time. Priority Enter ! List and Tags Location. Gorgeous TweetDeck Color Schemes | cheth Studios. 30 Sites Every Freelancer Should Visit and Utilize | FreelanceFo. Redesigning Your Own Site. As of 2008, I’d owned my own company, Lealea Design, for three years. I was aware of the need to show peers (often a source of referrals and speaking invitations) and potential clients that I was proficient in the very latest developments and trends in the industry. I had also realized that my site, at three years old, no longer reflected my personal brand or showcased my design services, my capabilities, or myself. Since self-branding is one of my specialties, this was inexcusable.
Article Continues Below Still, a redesign felt like a Sisyphean undertaking, and since my original design had received acclaim and garnered business I thought, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” The epiphany arrived a year ago. Designing for your worst client: yourself#section1 Redesigning a freelance website is an exercise in masochism. When I design for a client, we discuss scope and timeline, a design brief, budget, and certain constraints. I was wrong. Starting the redesign#section2 It was me. Fig.2. Fig.3. De-clutter Your Interface With Hover Controls « Usability Post. One of the more challenging things as a user interface (UI) designer is to achieve a good balance between showing just enough controls on the screen to allow the user to perform their tasks quickly, and yet not so much that the whole interface looks overwhelming and complicated.
Too little controls will mean the user will have to access stuff through menubars and other navigation panels, wasting their time. Too many and the user will just get lost, unable to find the stuff they need. Right now I’m working on my own web application (I’ll write about that later) and I’ve found a nice little CSS solution you can use to cut down on the clutter and yet retain the quick access to the controls users will need. Hover controls with CSS. Suppose our web application displays a list of notes.
But the thing is, showing all those controls for every item is repeating yourself. Here’s a live example page. This can be done with a simple CSS selector. That’s it. P.S. 8 Characteristics Of Successful User Interfaces « Usability Pos. There is a lot of information out there about various interface design techniques and patterns you can use when crafting your user interfaces and websites, solutions to common problems and general usability recommendations. Following guidelines from experts will likely lead you towards creating a good user interface — but what exactly is a good interface? What are the characteristics of an effective user interface?
Here are 8 things I consider a good user interface needs to be: Lets take a closer look at each. 1. Clarity is the most important element of user interface design. What does that do? 2. Clarity in a user interface is great, however, you should be careful not to fall into the trap of over-clarifying. Keep things clear but also keep things concise. The volume controls in OS X use little icons to show each side of the scale from low to high. 3.
Many designers strive to make their interfaces ‘intuitive’. GoPlan’s tabbed interface. 4. Responsive means a couple of things. 5. 6. 7. 8. Does Your Website Suffer From These 7 Usability Mistakes? « Usa. I can safely say that usability these days on the Web is much better than it was several years ago. The Web is growing up and designers are learning and discovering optimal ways of doing things, as well as optimizing and re-working their current sites to make them better and better. Yet there are still many sites today that make basic mistakes that have a very negative impact on usability and visitor loyalty. Sometimes it’s easier to say what you shouldn’t do instead of do, so here are my 7 usability issues to avoid when working on your websites: 1. Inconsistent site-wide navigation Site-wide navigation should do two things: show a list of locations you can use to browse the site and show your current location. 2.
Links are the key elements on a website — they’re the building blocks of the Web. 3. Ever been in a situation where you’re searching for something on Google and after finding a good link and clicking through you’re met with a registration request? 4. 5. 6. 7. Seth's Blog: Ignore your critics. If you find 100 comments on a blog post or 100 reviews of a new book or 100 tweets about you... and two of them are negative, while 98 are positive... which ones are you going to read first?
If you're a human being and you're telling the truth, the answer is pretty obvious: you want to know which misguided losers had nasty things to say and you want to know what they said. In fact, if we're being totally truthful, it's likely you're going to take what the critics had to say to heart. That's a shame. The critics are never going to be happy with you, that's why they're critics. You might bore them by doing what they say... but that won't turn them into fans, it will merely encourage them to go criticize someone else.
It doesn't matter what Groucho or Elvis or Britney or any other one-name performer does or did... the critics won't be placated. Here's a surprising thought, though. So, who should you listen to? Your sneezers. You should listen to the people who tell the most people about you. Bring Misplaced Off-Screen Windows Back to Your Desktop (Keyboar. If you’ve ever hooked up your laptop to a secondary monitor and then disconnected without remembering to move the windows back to the primary desktop, you’ve probably encounted this problem: The application is running.
You can see it in the taskbar, but you can’t see it on the screen, because it still thinks it’s running on the secondary monitor. You try and use right-click, Move, but that doesn’t do anything, and the window doesn’t move anywhere. You end up rebooting and cursing Microsoft. Getting Your Hidden Window Back with Cascade Windows The easiest way to get back a hidden window is to just right-click on the Taskbar and select “Cascade windows”. This will immediately cascade all of the open windows like this, moving your window back onto the screen: If that doesn’t work, proceed with the keyboard trick below. Getting Your Hidden Window Back with the Keyboard Trick There’s a simple trick to get around this. This should work on any version of Windows.