Jess Chadwick

Custom Authentication with Community Server

You may have scrolled down to the bottom of one of our blog posts at some point and noticed the little Community Server logo in the page footer. We've been using Community Server to host our blogs for some time now, and it's such a great platform that Read More...

What You Want vs. What I Want

You know what really grinds my gears?  Bad UX! I came across this login prompt today on a local county college library's website and it was just one more example of horrible UX that I see all too often and makes me physically sick: What's wrong with Read More...

Awesome Article on Usability

A buddy of mine sent me a link to the most concise article on usability I've seen in a while. There may not be a slew of brand new ideas in here, but it is a great checklist of standard and common practices and ideas. It starts with age-old, simplistic Read More...

Be Careful of What You Cache... and How You Cache It!

This post is about a wonderfully embarrassing experience I had recently from which you can (hopefully) learn something. Or - at the very least - this can serve as a reminder of what you already know. Recently a few guys from our IS team and I locked ourselves Read More...