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Abusing Ellipses
The humble ellipsis has found a whole new use: designating critical functionality in web applications. The question we must ask is whether this is a good idea, or should we abandon it?
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SharePoint 2013 Site Navigation Does Not Open in New Window
SharePoint 2013 team sites silently ignore the open in new window navigation setting. The culprit is the minimal download strategy feature.
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Faking Hover Intent with CSS Transitions
Dropdown menus are too trigger-happy on hover. A CSS transition delay on opacity can fake hover intent without any JavaScript.
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Adding the Top-Level Site Title as a Navigational Aid
Using an AspMenu with jQuery to display the parent site title above the quick launch as a navigational aid in SharePoint.
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Visual Demonstration of Folders vs. Metadata for Classification
A video walkthrough showing why metadata and content types beat folders for classifying content in SharePoint.
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Making DHTML Menus Suck Less
Most DHTML menus are a band-aid for bad information architecture. If you must use one, at least make it less painful.
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A Primer on Information Architecture: Navigation
A curated guide to navigation in information architecture: global, local, contextual, breadcrumbs, pagination, and the design patterns that tie them together.
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Objectives in User Interface Design
Rebuilding the UI layer at work made us define what we were aiming for. The seven objectives we settled on, and the difference between the information architecture and the technical architecture beneath them.