Sunday, July 11th, 2010
I have never enjoyed reading physical books. The user experience is all wrong. My thumbs get soar from holding the pages open, you have to hold it to the light just right so the curl of the pages don’t cast a giant shadow, it’s difficult to search and you need your own light source. I really don’t understand people that are attached to the physical book.
This isn’t a recent feeling either; I’ve been looking forward to digital books as long as I can remember, but up until now I didn’t really have an option. The Kindle has done a lot to get books published in digital form bit up until recently it wasn’t possible to get a book legally for any device. Read More »
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
Paging is separating out content to multiple pages, and it is a really common task for websites. The problem is that like oh so many things on the web, it is rarely done well. Come with me on this journey (rant?) on the correct way to implement paging.
Each page should have a “Next” and “Previous” button. If you are referring to chronological content, such as blog posts, use “Newer” and “Older” to be more specific. They should be the most prominent part of the paging area, since anyone interacting with that area of the page will most likely be going back and forth through the results.
There should also be a list of the pages in between the next/previous button.
Here is an example from Bubble Burster website:
An example of using Newer and Previous buttons
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