Feeds:
RSS
Atom

Intro

This site is a technical blog about TYPO3 content management system (more). Latest articles are below for your convenience. Clicking on the title will show you the full article. Thank you for coming!

Do not ask more than you need

24. July 2008 by Dmitry Dulepov

There is a very nice principle for designing web sites. It sound likes this: "Do not ask from user more than you really need".

I often remember this principle when I go to download sample chapters of free demos from web sites. Many of them ask for lots of data. Why, for example, they need to know my social security code or phone number? Or why do they need my e-mail if I want to download the sample chapter? Do they want to spam me?

I usually refuse to give such information because I...

Posted in HCI and UI | Comments (8) | 302 views


What TYPO3 Backend do we need?

12. June 2008 by Dmitry Dulepov

There were some discussions during T3DD08, in the mailing lists and by Skype that we need some changes in TYPO3 UI. I was fighting my points hard. One of my points is: change existing and stable things only if it is absolutely necessary because people are already used to them.

I am not talking about bug fixing here. Bug fixes usually do not force people to learn new things. I am talking about changing UI in the incompatible way.

One good (or bad, depending on your views) example is...

Posted in HCI and UI | Comments (4) | 756 views