Creating usable website solutions
The progress bar.
A common element on websites and applications.
You’ve seen all kinds of progress bars, from animated clocks to a vertical bar that fills up slowly from left to right.
And sometimes it feels like watching the progress bar is waiting for a pot of water to boil. Continue reading How the Progress Bar Keeps You Sane [TED Video]
Imagine you’ve returned from lunch and you’re getting ready to continue your work project from the morning.
Before you start, you take 10 minutes to visit LinkedIn, to catch up on the latest news in your industry and learn what your colleagues have recently published.
Only to have loud audio from an embedded video play automatically in your LinkedIn feed.
Argh. How distracting! Continue reading How to Disable Autoplay Videos in LinkedIn for Desktop, Android, and iOS
As I read my Twitter stream this morning, a tweet from Poynter captured my attention:
Remember those college kids who launched a transcription service? After journalists crashed it, they rebuilt it.
https://t.co/CdIi3qyUeh pic.twitter.com/Cxvhz3Jhxl— Poynter (@Poynter) July 31, 2017
An online transcription service that quickly transcribes audio files, how did I miss this news last May?
From today’s article, I learned that when Poynter shared the news about the Happy Scribe transcription service in May 2017, journalists quickly tried out the online tool for their transcripts. Continue reading Happy Scribe: Online Service to Create Transcripts for Your Audio and Video