90 percent of everything : Usability Blog

Written by Harry Brignull

Here’s a short screencast demo of our new Lazy Registration system on the Madgex Job Board Platform. If you’ve read Luke Wrobleski’s book or ALA article ‘Sign up forms must die‘, this will probably be familiar territory, but if you’re not 100% up to speed with the concept of Lazy Reg, you might find this interesting.

Oh, and bear in mind the website (bigworkbag.com) used in the demo is for demo purposes only. The jobs are all fictional.

Intended for web developers with an intermediate to advanced knowledge of XHTML, CSS, Javascript and Windows 95, the script BSOD.js provides an easy-to-use class to boost the error reporting user experience of your websites. Made by Guillermo Rauch of Devthought.

Benefits include:

• Simple syntax.
• Works with every layout and browser.
• Usability tests show extraordinary levels of acceptance.
• Supports events to extend its functionality

→ Read more and try the demo here.

Mwahahaha! Seriously though, there is a serious message in here about why error messages are often neglected, i.e. developer convenience. Thanks to Bruce Boughton for the link!