Comments for Laura Kalbag

Comment on A Practical Guide to Designing the invisible by Jeff Lau

Jeff Lau — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 01:11:09 +0000

I just read Hardboiled Web Design. I was going to pick this up to, but I have this thing about buying books and not actually getting a ‘book’. Maybe I’ll give it a read after this review!

Comment on Labels in input fields aren’t such a good idea by Mats Svensson

Mats Svensson — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:15:52 +0000

Putting help-texts or labels INSIDE the texfields,
either with HTML5 placeholder, or some hack,
is F useless and should NEVER be used.

I have never EVER ever seen it done in a way that doesn’t break when you fill a field by drag&drop.

Example:
The help text in the field says “Name”.
You select the text “Smith” somewhere and drag it and drop it in the field.
It now says “NaSmithme” or similar.

I guess you could build something that makes the field transparent , puts the help-text under (lower z-index), and then hides the help-text when the user start to fill it out.

But NEVER actually put the help-text inside the field itself, like its always done now .
This madness must be stopped!

Comment on Designing For Emotion by Damian Herrington

Damian Herrington — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:25:30 +0000

Great post. I am fan of the A Book Apart series, may give this one a read after Responsive Web Design.

Comment on Designing For Emotion by Nik (aMixedmedia)

Nik (aMixedmedia) — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:09:10 +0000

Brilliant review. Emotions and design are two favourite subjects of mine – I’ll be getting this book when I can ! :)

Comment on A Practical Guide to Designing the invisible by Laura

Laura — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 09:07:43 +0000

I hope you like it as much as I did :)

Comment on A Practical Guide to Designing the invisible by Justin Avery

Justin Avery — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 01:01:09 +0000

Bought (you should get referrals)

Comment on dConstruct 2011 — My Digest by Laura

Laura — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 07:27:24 +0000

Thanks Dan :)

Comment on dConstruct 2011 — My Digest by Dan W

Dan W — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 23:11:31 +0000

Thanks, that was good. I’d love to see more conference write ups like this than the TL;DR oriented per-speaker bullet point lists many produce.

Comment on dConstruct 2011 — My Digest by Daily Reading: September 12, 2011 | Elliot Ross

Daily Reading: September 12, 2011 | Elliot Ross — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:05:33 +0000

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Comment on dConstruct 2011 — My Digest by Laura

Laura — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:22:53 +0000

It’s tricky because I was trying to work across themes rather than writing per-talk, but I’ve tried to add some headers in there to break the themes up. Maybe I’ll do a quick skip-menu at the top!