randy hall archives
Luke Wroblewski, in his latest column at uxmatters.com, Refining Data Tables, takes a look at several interface design solutions that enable users to find their way through large tables of data.
“Users often need to add, edit, delete, search for, and browse through lists of people, places, or things within Web applications. As a result, the design of tables plays a crucial role in such an application’s overall usefulness and usability. But just like the design of forms, there’s more than one way to design tabular data.”
“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”Antoine De Saint-Exupery, 1580
Firefox tops the charts for use among 37Signals’ webapps.
The stats incude use of Basecamp, Backpack, Campfire, and Ta-da list. (Not sure why Writeboard was not included.)