Show/Hide password accessibility and password hints tutorial | Part of a Whole
A good tutorial on making password fields accessible when you’ve got the option to show and hide the input.
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Improve Your Billing Form’s UX In One Day – Smashing Magazine
A few straightforward steps for improving the usability of credit card forms. The later steps involve JavaScript but the first step uses nothing more than straight-up HTML.
Password Masking
A great investigation into the usability benefits of allowing users to fill in their passwords in plain text.
Major caveat: make sure you still offer the ability to mask passwords too.
LukeW | Mobile Design Details: Hide/Show Passwords
I concur completely with Luke’s assessment here. Most password-masking on the web is just security theatre. Displaying password inputs by default (but with an option to hide) should be the norm.
Skinny Ties and responsive eCommerce » Blog » Gravity Department
Another responsive design case study. This one’s got numbers too.
“Six-Penny Anthems II” - A classic Bearskinrug Article.
Rejoice! For Kevin Cornell’s new book is available to you through the power of print on demand. I’ve ordered mine. And should you.
Kitchen Interfaces Suck; Let's Break Down Why | Co.Design
Aza Raskin on the UI failings of kitchens.
Op-Ed Contributor - Mind Over Mass Media - NYTimes.com
An excellent rebuttal by Steven Pinker to Nicholas Carr's usual trolling.
Does the Web remember too much — or too little? — Scott Rosenberg
Yes! Yes! Yes! An excellent fisking of that ridiculous New York Times article that confused problems in the present with data longevity.
Concerning FourSquare · Ben Ward
A great Fisking by Ben of (very silly, IMHO) morally panicked Guardian article on Foursquare.
Busker Du
Busker Du (dial-up) is a recording service for buskers through the telephone (preferably public payphones hidden in subway stations).
moly_x_12
Follow the adventure of this group of artists from around the world, in a Japanese fold Moleskine sketchbook exchange.
Shackleton Centenary Expedition
Another beautiful frosty design from the Erskine chaps.
Welcome | Ben Saunders | North Pole Speed Record
Intrepid adventurer Ben Saunders is off again. This time he aims to to set a new world speed record from Ward Hunt Island to the Geographic North Pole. He is armed with a beautiful website courtesy of Colly and the lads at Erskine.
Translation From MS-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Joel Spolsky’s “Martian Headsets” [dive into mark]
Mark Pilgrim fisks Joel Spolsky. He's not greedy either: there's still plenty of straw men left in Spolsky's screed for the rest of us to skewer.
Field Notes Brand
Dan is claiming that these notebooks could be moleskin killers. I am intrigued and I do like the nice use of Futura.
Pearls Before Breakfast - washingtonpost.com
Joshua Bell goes busking in the Metro. This well-written article could have been disheartening but, as a former busker myself, I found it downright reassuring.
Creating Passionate Users: The Asymptotic Twitter Curve
Kathy Sierra doesn't like Twitter. Join us, Kathy... be a lover, not a hater.
iGoatse. the new skin for your iPod
This is priceless... but my iPod feels somehow dirty now.
Eric's Archived Thoughts: Adium: Chatting With Style
You can skin Adium using just XHTML and CSS. Who knew?