A beautifully-designed checklist for web designers
launchlist.net
launchlist.net
Hard to read font, capitalization and color-saturation choices. Inefficient spacing/sizing requiring more scrolling and mousing to use. Nonstandard 'check' indicator which is farther from its label than usual on-the-left practice. Large floating fixed footer not seeming to provide value commensurate with its placement. 'About' slide-out that's impossible for me to close without major window fussing (maximize window, close row of open tabs).
Feature request: provide checklist items as plain text.
Safari 5 on a fast Core 2 Duo is plenty usable with it, but when my scroll framerate seemingly goes from 60fps to 30, it's not worth it. Smooth scrolling is just too high on my UX priorities list.
My one criticism is that I find the all-caps League Gothic much too difficult to read here. A non-condensed sans-serif would be a lot easier on the eyes.
Apart from that, I think a lot of those options should be either set to N/A automatically, or some kind of low priority or second round testing. It's comprehensive, I'll give it that; but it's just too visually dense.
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REVIEWED BY 5 HUMANS FOR OBVIOUS OVERSIGHTS? | | NO
+---+I like checklists, but I really prefer plain text that I print out and check off manually. It's just easier.
In 2010, after Microsoft sent flowers to IE6's funeral[1] we have been able to use that anecdote to persuade clients to go a step further and actively sign off that IE6 is not supported.
At the least, "Displays and functions correctly in IE6" should be defaulted to "N/A", which would also help make the "N/A" option more discoverable.
[1] http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2010/03/microsoft_sends_flo...
That's still a good list and more usable because of its spreadsheetish look.
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?
Anyone know what font that site uses? It's one of my new favorites, but don't know the name yet.
Turns out the Windows version of FireFox had a bug with setInterval() on windows that would cause it to fire irregularly...
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)