Warning: jargon ahead! If you’ve been kicking around the Internet, especially as an engineer, for longer than my oldest dog, you probably already know these terms. If you don’t, you’ve experienced them but you didn’t know they had a name. Bikeshedding Bikeshedding is the act of spending all the time involved in making decisions fighting … Continue reading “Bikeshedding and Yak Shaving”

Here are the design things that have annoyed me today. The email from my grocery store that says my order is both pickup and delivery. Every time I get one of these delivery confirmations, I have a heart attack that I’ve accidentally scheduled pickup. It’s clearly a template reuse problem somewhere, but since the grocery … Continue reading “Pet peeves of the day”

Editor’s note: reposted from Today’s accessibility lesson: error message specificity with permission from the author, who also happens to be me. WCAG 3.3.1 Error Identification is a Level A guideline that requires us to provide error messages when an input error is detected. Which, I mean, the fact that this had to be written down … Continue reading “Today’s accessibility lesson: error message specificity”