Tag Archives: user interface

Realistic CSS3 Buttons Redux

May 11, 2010 – 5:14 pm

A couple of weeks ago I posted Realistic Looking CSS3 Buttons, in which I tried to make awesome-looking CSS3 buttons that required no extra markup. For people who like more code and less talk, the end of the post has the link to the demo. As awesome as they were, they required an explicit width. […]

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Realistic Looking CSS3 Buttons

April 19, 2010 – 11:06 am

A while back Mike Rundle posted the terrific article Crafting Subtle & Realistic User Interfaces. He clearly articulates design details which make buttons look realistic and therefore push-able. If you haven’t read it, go there, spend lots of time looking at his excellent diagrams, and then come back. Go even if you forget to come […]

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On the iPad and Web Design

January 29, 2010 – 10:33 am

As usual, Apple’s newest creation has produced opinions. The rhetoric of those for and against it is predictably strong and, occasionally, ridiculous. I don’t care to add my voice to the din. My attention is more fixated on the fact that if the iPad is successful, we’ll have to say goodbye to a whole host […]

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