Manoj Pillai

"Taking product management into next level"

Posts Tagged 'Design'

Style Studio

Style Studio offers a powerful “CSS-Checker” which enables both newbies and professional to develop standard-conform CSS-based layouts. Developers can use a number of assisting tools such as “Smart linker” which links multiple CSS documents to many HTML XHTML / XML documents at once and CSS Manager that manages and upgrades to standard compliant code (tidy) [...]

30 August 2009 at 14:35 - Comments

Using color to manage attention

Color can also be used to effectively focus your visitors’ attention on important or actionable elements. For example, during the US presidential election, pretty much all of the candidates’ websites had the donation button colored red. Red is a very bright and powerful color so it attracts attention, and it stands out even more when [...]

18 August 2009 at 04:35 - Comments

Common Principles: A Usable Interface Design Primer

Common Principles: A Usable Interface Design Primer By Rick Oppedisano When users perform a transaction or action, their cognition is often split between learning and operating the system or user interface (UI)1 . A well-designed UI allows users to focus the majority of their cognitive energy on learning, and offers no operational complications. This most general principle [...]

10 August 2009 at 07:17 - Comments