Let’s talk about power search. Redfin currently offers over thirty ways to filter your search, but it seems that no matter how many options we provide, there will always be someone out there who wants more. Here’s a sampling of the kinds of emails we regularly receive in our Tech Support inbox: “I would like… Read More
Internet Explorer 9 Beta sometimes gives the wrong answer when we ask for the size of the viewport (viewable area of the browser window). On an HTML document with “X-UA compatible” set to IE=7 and Windows font DPI set to 125% or 150% with the browser window maximized, IE9 claims the viewport is a few… Read More
When your webapp is serving up content that’s expensive to generate, you may want to serve it up asynchronously- via AJAX calls. This is particularly appealing when content is “below the fold.” However when that content is cached, you want to serve it up as quickly as possible. If you’ve already calculated the content, you’d… Read More
The other day Dana was busy exploring new treatments for the buttons for our offer wizard and Leo found this very relevant article on the subject, Primary & Secondary Actions in Web Forms which explores the subject using eye tracking tests: While the primary goal of most Web form designs is to get people through… Read More