blog.jim-nielsen.com — The Value of Experience
Adam Silver has an article titled “Do you trust design advice from ChatGPT?” wherein he prompted the LLM: How do you add hint text to radio buttons? It gave...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — Book Notes: “The Order of Time” by Carlo Rovelli
I recently finished Carlo Rovelli’s book “The Order of Time” and, of course, had a few web-adjacent thoughts come to mind. Who says lessons from physics...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — A Few Thoughts on Customizable Form Controls
Web developers have been waiting years for traction in styling HTML form controls. Is it possible the day has come? Here’s Jen Simmons on Mastodon: My team...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — Proving Binaries
Heydon Pickering has an intriguing video dealing with the question: “Why is everything binary?” The gist of the video, to me, distills to this insight: The...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — Ecosystems vs. Artifacts: Don’t Break the Web
Here’s Gordon Brander in an article titled “Don't fork the ecosystem”: Most of our software has been shaped by chance decisions made in haste by people who...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — Building WebSites With LLMS
And by LLMS I mean: (L)ots of (L)ittle ht(M)l page(S). I recently shipped some updates to my blog. Through the design/development process, I had some...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — AX, DX, UX
Matt Biilman, CEO of Netlify, published an interesting piece called “Introducing AX: Why Agent Experience Matters” where he argues the coming importance of a...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — Can You Get Better Doing a Bad Job?
Rick Rubin has an interview with Woody Harrelson on his podcast Tetragrammaton. Right at the beginning Woody talks about his experience acting and how he’s...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — Limitations vs. Capabilities
Andy Jiang over on the Deno blog writes “If you're not using npm specifiers, you're doing it wrong”: During the early days of Deno, we recommended importing...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — Sanding UI, pt. II
Let’s say you make a UI to gather some user feedback. Nothing complicated. Just a thumbs up/down widget. It starts out neutral, but when the user clicks up...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — CSS Space Toggles
I’ve been working on a transition to using light-dark() function in CSS. What this boils down to is, rather than CSS that looks like this: :root { color-...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — Aspect Ratio Changes With CSS View Transitions
So here I am playing with CSS view transitions (again). I’ve got Dave Rupert’s post open in one tab, which serves as my recurring reference for the question,...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — Search Results Without JavaScript
I’m currently looking to add a search feature to my blog. It’s a client-side approach, which means I was planning on using my favorite progressive-...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — The Art of Making Websites
Hidde de Vries gave a great talked titled “Creativity cannot be computed” (you can checkout the slides or watch the video). In his slides he has lots of...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — Software Pliability
Quoting myself from former days on Twitter: Businesses have a mental model of what they do. Businesses build software to help them do it—a concrete...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — Blown Away By the Unexpected
A friend gave me a copy of the book “Perfect Wave” by Dave Hickey. I’ve been slowly reading through each essay and highlighting parts with my red pencil....
blog.jim-nielsen.com — UI Pace Layers
Jeremy Keith, Chris Coyier, and others (see Jeremy’s post) have written about the idea of “pace layers” and now I’m going to take a stab at applying it to...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — Notes on Google Search Now Requiring JavaScript
John Gruber has a post about how Google’s search results now require JavaScript[1]. Why? Here’s Google: the change is intended to “better protect” Google...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — Missed Connections
Let me tell you about one of the best feelings. You have a problem. You bang your head on it for a while. Through the banging, you formulate a string of...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — HTML Minification for Static Sites
This is a note to my future self, as I’ve setup HTML minification on a few different projects and each time I ask myself, “How did I do that again?” So...