They forgot one: +---+ REVIEWED BY 5 HUMANS FOR OBVIOUS OVERSIGHTS? | | NO +---+
5? You must work in a small enterprise ;)
Maybe he was referring to this? http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000319.html
A beautifully-designed checklist for web designers
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Re: A beautifully-designed checklist for web designers
#32Do people really spend their time making sites like these for attention? We get it, you're good at using Photoshop and maybe CSS. These sites are useless, why would anyone waste their time making them?
Re: A beautifully-designed checklist for web designers
#33I like it a lot. My one quibble is that a lot of the animations seem to take forever.
Re: A beautifully-designed checklist for web designers
#34Do people really spend their time making sites like these for attention? We get it, you're good at using Photoshop and maybe CSS. These sites are useless, why would anyone waste their time making them?
Do people really spend their time criticizing others on HN? We get it, you're too busy and smart for such tomfoolery. :)
Seriously, whoever made this did it as a fun exercise. They probably have to make boring forms at work and wanted to see how extreme they could go in making something attractive (whether it's actually attractive is open for discussion). Maybe they learned something they can use; maybe others will be inspired.
Haven't you ever tinkered with something that wasn't strictly necessary? If not, how do you learn what's possible?
Re: A beautifully-designed checklist for web designers
#35Ironically, the iPad-styled UI doesn't fully work on the iPad because it depends on mouseover.
I had the same reaction when I saw the on/off buttons. For a second I thought they were so advanced they had designed the site to work with the iphone/ipad. Alas, it's just a regular webpage which relies on mouseover to function.
Re: A beautifully-designed checklist for web designers
#36This has got to be the move over-engineered checklist I've ever seen in my life. What's wrong with a text file of all these things? It's not even complete.
Re: A beautifully-designed checklist for web designers
#37I knew these "tips" when I was 16 after playing with HTML/CSS for a few weeks. These are obvious no brainers for anyone that has any business doing anything web related.
Descriptive 404, obvious SEO things that just make sense to do anyway, alt text?
Who needs a checklist to do these things? And one that takes 6 seconds to load in all the JS at that. (I'm not one to complain about JS usually but the scripts were working for a significant and noticeable amount of time)