Jun 26, 2008 | Filed in: Usability, Web Design

It’s all too easy for someone who follows Web Standards to blab on about good usability and I’m often asked what is usability?
Hopefully this post, on Luke W’s Functioning Form website, will give an idea as to what is good usability. It highlights how simple good usability can be. It’s very often a case of basic common sense, but without someone pointing it out to you it may not be obvious. In short this post shows how having simple defaults in forms that we fill in on the internet will prevent those dumbass annoying errors - “you forgot to fill in this bit!”
http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?691
May 10, 2008 | Filed in: Inspiration, Web Design

Another one of Bluestone’s designers, Jack Howell, together with Mike Armstrong (again) had their personal sites featured on a Smashing Magazine article showcasing 50 excellent blog designs. Good work chaps!
May 10, 2008 | Filed in: Personal, Web Design

It was only January just gone when I launched version 4 of seanjohnson.net but I’ve never been totally happy with it, so I’ve managed to find some time in my busy life to revisit this sketchbook idea I had a while back. If you’ve been following my Twitter feed you’ll see I’ve been pulling my hair out over a few things, but I wanted this live as soon as, so I’ve ditched a couple of bits and will be feeding these back in over the next few weeks. Please feel free to leave comments and let me know what you think.