Michael Gaigg: Über UI/UX Design

The Three-?-stick

The Three-?-stick is going around ... and and so it came around. Björn from the Webzeugkoffer (excellent webdesign blog in German) picked up the stick by answering 3 questions that I will answer now too:

The three questions

Which Editor do you use for (X)HTML and CSS?

I'm using Macromedia Dreamweaver. I'm still stuck at MX 2004, but I really got used to the color coding and other superficial things - it's like toothpaste, once you are hooked you'll never change again (don't ask for the trade pls).

...and notepad

Which little tool became a true time saver for you?

Can't live without Firebug - seriously, can't live without it. That's not a little tool? Ok, what about ColorSet, love that also.

Flash - what do you think of that technology?

Call me a purist, but I'm really into DHTML. Unless somebody convinces me otherwise I can do what I need to do with HTML a JavaScript library like jQuery, Dojo, YUI or even the Facebook JavaScript Library.
I disliked flash when it got into 'mode' a century ago and still think that flash intros should die. Accessibility is still an issue also.

On the flipside our company created a really powerful ArcGIS API for Flex for building Rich Internet applications on top of ArcGIS Server, our internet mapping server. I might need to reconsider some of my previous believes.

I forward the three-?-stick to

• Christian Heilmann, http://www.wait-till-i.com/
• Hannes Schmiderer, http://noox.at/
• Robert Nyman, http://robertnyman.com/

Similar Posts:

• Highlights of Week 07/2010
• HTML5 and the Future of Adobe Flash [and Silverlight]
• Highlights of Week 30/2010

About Michael Gaigg

Michael Gaigg is a User Interface Expert at ESRI. His expertise includes User-centered Design (UCD), Usability, Accessibility and Section 508, Web Development and Web Design.