Archive for the ‘FileMaker’ Category
Free Dribbble Invite
So I've been hammering away at the next version of InBloom and have a number of loose-ends to tie up. But I need help finalizing a toolbar design and am reaching to the web: give your constructive feedback here (or on Dribbble [...]
What are the best practices for tooltips?
Amazingly, I can't seem to really find useful results (after some quick preliminary research) on the best practices when implementing tooltips. While I'm focusing this query more on their behavior in FileMaker, the web, the myriad of accessibility guidelines, and the evolution tooltips have undergo [...]
Vertical Market Solutions in FileMaker, Issue 0
There's not a lot of info, I realize, on the web or collectively disseminated about building a vertical market solution using FileMaker Pro as your development and user environment. Many people have built vertical market solutions, but few have actually spoken about it. Given this is something I [...]
Designing for politeness
“If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.” — Alan Cooper, The Inmates Are Running the AsylumI recently found an article on [...]
[...]Who knew? Printing on a Mac CAN be sexy!
The folks at NRG Software put up a post about how Mac OS 10.5.2 now has Zebra printer compatibility. For the uninitiated, this means Macs can finally interface to the Zebr [...]
The FM10 Feature NO ONE is talking about
So here I am browsing through a solution I'm looking to update to FM10, when I see a new script step. And it has me salivating and no one, not even the ebullient FM bloggers over at SixFriedRice, is discussing it. It seems to effectively be a kind of way to tie a UNIX cron job (actually just a t [...]
[...]Data-Scrubbing A Ruse?
So I'm still tinkering with FileMaker 8.5 and I'm not totally sold on the data-scrubbing PR that's being spun in the direction of users. For example, is it ea [...]