Simon Willison’s Weblog

Primary & Secondary Actions in Web Forms. Fascinating results from an eye tracking study on the placement of “Submit” and “Cancel” buttons—one layout was a whole six seconds slower than the others. Luke Wroblewski’s “Web Form Design Best Practices” book looks like it will be excellent.

# 4th September 2007, 2:52 am / design, eyetracking, formdesign, forms, luke-wroblewski, usability

About Mezzoblue. Dave Shea’s blog archive is really classy, in particular the way bundles of posts around a single photo share a colour scheme derived from the image.

# 16th June 2007, 12:30 am / dave-shea, design

The logo is still evolving, say designers. The Olympics logo is designed to be “hackable”—which is actually a great idea, but lawyers advised against unveiling that concept at the same time as the abstract shapes.

# 11th June 2007, 10:22 am / design, law, olympicslogo

Poll results: 50.4% of respondents maximise windows. Interesting graphs that break down browser window maximisation by operating system.

# 17th April 2007, 4:22 pm / design, maximisation, roger-johansson, ui

Designing Google Reader’s trends. “But beyond the visualization, this serves as a good example of collecting and understanding the ambient information that flows through our digital lives.”

# 15th January 2007, 12:53 am / design, google, google-reader, jeffrey-veen, visualization

Apple’s Next-Generation Themes. Cabel’s spotted an Apple patent with screenshots of their in-house tool for creating resolution independent user interface themes.

# 8th January 2007, 11 pm / apple, cabel-sasser, design, osx, patent, ui