Tell HN: Hidden website design/usability gems?

  • Hey thanks! We spent a long time getting the timing on the swoop and the bounce when it lands in the cart right. Cool to see someone notice. :)

  • Not technical or new, but hitboxes, hitboxes, hitboxes. Add 5px of padding to your anchors and a rollover color, it makes a really huge difference.

  • Great trick! Movement always catches the user's eye, even my cat reacts if she sees anything jumping! It appears it was all done with YUI. I guess moving the image with position absolute and placing it in front of all other elements with the z-index.

  • Neat product. I had to buy one for my GF, the artist. The whole shopping cart experience is just a little bit better than usual. It asked me for my name and the used it to populate the CC and shipping names. The messages were nice, not institutional.

    EDIT: Must be the HN effect: they are out of stock and wont ship for another week, :-(

  • That's a cool trick. Very usable. What are you using for the shopping cart? Is it homebrew or something off the shelf like Satchmo or magento?

  • Neat little trick! Also a neat little product, ideal for selling over the web.