Web Development, Design & Programming

Choosing breakpoints

Adjusting our thumbnails

Not just width

At MyFonts, our webfont kit builder has a handy style linking tool, which enables you to specify which font to associate with <em> and <strong> tags.

Sensible Forms: A Form Usability Checklist

Provide at least 20 characters for each of the first and last name fields.

Shorten your forms and question “mandatory” fields

Personalization is not new. Popularized by Amazon and Netflix more than a decade ago, personalization is the practice of tailoring information to people based on what they are looking for, what they have found interesting in the past, what their friends have engaged with, or based on explicit inputs like their interests. Personalization has gotten a lot of positive attention recently because it can be used to great effect to organize the web’s information overflow into relevant, meaningful experiences.

Consumers had to work too hard to find the music they liked. Once consumers were introduced to a better way to curate and listen to music, they were never going back. When Pandora allowed users to input their music preferences through both explicit selections and implicit actions to help shape their content stream, it changed the listening experience. Pandora made listening to music online personal.