{"id":232,"date":"2011-02-12T17:41:49","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T22:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/blog\/?p=232"},"modified":"2011-02-12T18:25:52","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T23:25:52","slug":"a-short-cheat-sheet-to-designing-good-web-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/blog\/2011\/02\/12\/a-short-cheat-sheet-to-designing-good-web-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"a short cheat sheet to designing good web apps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sort of a Maslovian hierarchy. I.e. don’t attempt a subsequent step until you get the previous step right.<\/p>\n

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  1. Load fast<\/li>\n
  2. Don’t break the browser or the web (e.g. bookmark-ability, back\/foward, searchability, etc.)<\/li>\n
  3. Align with core web UI conventions (e.g. use hyperlinks for navigation, use forms for data entry)<\/li>\n
  4. Be consistent with other web apps in your product family if you have one (e.g. all Google apps, all IBM apps)<\/li>\n
  5. Make it pretty and do cool stuff if if it helps your users be more productive and\/or have a more pleasant user experience<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Sort of a Maslovian hierarchy. I.e. don’t attempt a subsequent step until you get the previous step right. Load fast Don’t break the browser or the web (e.g. bookmark-ability, back\/foward, searchability, etc.) Align with core web UI conventions (e.g. use hyperlinks for navigation, use forms for data entry) Be consistent with other web apps in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ajax","category-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}