I’ll be speaking at the second MinneWebCon at the University of Minnesota next Monday, April 6th, 2009. There's a great lineup of speakers focusing on a range of topics, from user experience design, to social media privacy, to site security and hacker tricks. I attended MinneWebCon ’08 and had a blast. I'm more excited this year to have the honor of presenting a session entitled “It’s the Little Things”.

My Session: It’s the Little Things

User Interaction: it's the little things that are a website’s best assets for gaining a positive and memorable user experience. This presentation will focus on trends and best practices in design and development conventions for user controls and how they affect the user experience—negatively or positively. Through the course of the session, we will discover various problems affecting smooth user interaction. Then I will identify ways to enhance controls and layouts in order to both speed up required user tasks and make them easier to use.

There is limited space for attendees at MinneWebCon, so register today before it fills up. I hope to see you all there!

This is my biggest peeve in when trying to design a web site using Photoshop: text objects can't be forced to whole pixels. They always seem to render their start point from a sub-pixel location. In the following image, you can see two separate text objects that I created, each with the exact same text, but each is rendered slightly different because of its sub-pixel starting location.

In honor of St. Patrick's Day, Azul 7 (my day job—check us out) has become Verde 7 to celebrate the occasion. Using jQuery and a whole lot of Irish luck, I helped create a parallax scrolling world full of charms and wishes that you can add to or share with your friends for this upcoming St. Patty's Day.

This is the first of a series of posts related to learning and understanding baseJS: the mobile javascript framework. These posts are intended for anyone familiar with JavaScript who wants to start learning about baseJS and how it can help them develop webapps for the iPhone. In this post, we'll look at Element Selectors and Event Listeners.

It’s no secret that everything you do on the Internet can be tracked, watched, and analyzed. The amount of information that we can gather is… well… creepy… to say the least. I wouldn’t worry too much though, as most people really don’t care who you are and are not recording that. Using the Google Analytics Event Tracking API, we can get nice statistics for everything from browser window size, to outbound links, to downloads, all the way to what people are copying off of your pages.