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textGauge jQuery Plugin
We've all been there. Fill in enough forms online, and you'll eventually hit the textarea that has a character limit. We've seen all the usual treatments: "The Keystroke Countdown," "The Arbitrary Letter Target," and the worst UX sin of all: "The Hard-Limit Hammer."
When I was faced with solving this particular problem recently, I decided that there had to be a better solution. There are two major problems to solve with a length limited input field:
- How to indicate what the limit actually is
- How to show the user how far into (or over) the limit they are
I believe that my textGauge plugin solves these problems.
Pure CSS Glossy Button (with a "Sliding Doors" fallback)
I like to challenge myself when I'm working on web presentation.
Last year, at work, the Creative department designed a new style of button to replace our old implementation. It was a fairly graphical button style, and I immediately began wondering if there was a way to avoid images and slicing. The typical solution to this problem is a sliding doors approach.
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Model Kit for iPhone and iPod Touch
Version 1.1.2 now available!
Model Kit is a set of calculation tools designed for scale model builders, model-railroad enthusiasts, scratch-builders, or anyone else who needs to quickly and easily convert between measurements in different scales, figure out the scale of a model or model part, or perform other modeling-related calculations.
Model Kit for iPhone® and iPod touch® is available on the App Store℠ for US$4.99