Designing for Use: Customer Lookup

Mar 26th // 5 comments

I’m working on a Point-of-Sale like project for a retailer that needed a simple form to qualify a customer at the beginning of an order. It is often helpful for the service associate to review a customer’s past order history and allows them to skip the step of capturing contact info all over again.

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Follow Up: Editing Pages in WordPress 2.7

Nov 25th // 1 comment

Last week I noted that editing pages - specifically changing a page’s sort order, parent, and template - are particularly cumbersome in the current 2.6x release. I suggested the simple alternative would be to simply expose these common functions on the page manager itself, as well as offer drag-and-drop page re-order to set the page sort order.

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