<canvas> is a new HTML element which can be used to draw graphics using scripting (usually JavaScript). It can for instance be used to draw graphs, make photo compositions or do simple (and not so simple) animations. <canvas> was first introduced by Apple for the Mac OS X Dashboard and later implemented in Safari. Gecko-based [...]

i’ve always loved the youngpup scroller he did for the late threeoh.com . It dates back from 2001, and i’m sure there will be people criticizing custom scrollbars, yet i do not. This one piece is extremely elegant, usable, and adds meta information to the user, such as the quicklinks, generated from each item of [...]

One of the vital challenges of internet and the most complex issue of electronic medium is to formalize or create the notion of presence, of “being there”. Check out this firefox extension: Me.dium (description by Katherine Yee) http://me.dium.com/ Me.dium is a plug-in for the Firefox Browser that enables “social browsing”. It occupies a space on [...]

for the sake of studying the usability of an interface (such as a website), people use heatmaps as a way of tracking the click rate per screen area. i like it because it’s a dead-end example of why words like “virtual” do not have any sense: it underlines the materiality of a visitor’s presence on [...]

I think i’ve found the ultimate rss feader. Lightweight, tiny, yet highly configurable, visually pleasing, and giving direct access to information. Great usability especially, as it does a good job in helping you digest the great floods of information in a very short time. And it’s completely free too. KlipFolio.com Here is how it looks [...]

Last night i created a skin for the excellent, open source php script: phpmyadmin, (unless your mummy comes from Mars, you probably know that it’s a php script which allows to manage mySQL databases). Although i love this script, its interface is not the most elegant. Fortunately, it is possible to “skin” it, so hop [...]

I am very happy to announce the release by Dexagogo (aka the über talented Andrew Tetlaw) of a table sorting javascript using prototype. This development was released under the MIT license and sponsored by me, because i find this to answer to a very recurring need when setting up data display interfaces: it allows sorting [...]

C’mon guys, give that ajax script a rest and go back to the basics of what makes a good navigation system ! Read it all at A List Apart: Articles: Where Am I? by Derek Powazek In short, make sure your navigation systems answers 3 questions: Where am i? Where have i been? Where can [...]

now, this is a nice experimental application: imagine your fridge, and all the magnets used to hang on notes, Domino’s pizza pricelist , your mum’s dentist phone number, etc… you could think of it as a multiuser application, right? well, this experiment intends to do just that: allow several persons to modify the position of [...]