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UX Designer / Solution Architect / Utility Infielder at BarometerIT.

Rare blogging occurs at AnotherTrick.

I live in the exurbs of Minneapolis, MN with my wife, dog, three daughters and lots of white-tailed deer.

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Apr 25	comment	Studies or experience on using faded text to indicate more content? @kaiser Thanks for the thoughts. I reworked the lists. Also, probably both of the last ones could be called an "inner shadow", though the key is that it's an inner shadow on a container that truncates text - hence why I was trying to draw the parallel. My wording needs some revision...
Apr 25	revised	Studies or experience on using faded text to indicate more content? added 40 characters in body
Apr 25	comment	Studies or experience on using faded text to indicate more content? The key point is whether the OP meant that the fade happens over 10 miles or 10 mm. I don't think it's clear, given the terse description and lack of example. I'd agree that huge gradients over text are bad - the examples you include look pretty awful in the best of conditions. But just because the description is vague doesn't mean you should assume the worst case. I'd be curious what you think of my answer that addresses a case where perhaps the assumptions are more optimistic.
Apr 20	comment	Studies or experience on using faded text to indicate more content? Also, this answer assumes a lot of practical limitations we can only guess at. Is it web-only? (If it were web-only, what about progressive enhancement? And most of the time on the web today, isn't millions of colors the norm?) What about desktop environments? Intranets where hardware is known? This is a pretty general question. (Plus, surely blocking in a gradient applied to text will be less ugly than your example?)
Apr 20	comment	Studies or experience on using faded text to indicate more content? I, like @Ilari Kajaste, also suspect the OP did not mean the fade would be over such a long distance.
Apr 20	answered	Studies or experience on using faded text to indicate more content?
Apr 17	revised	LED flashing parameters to best let a human count flashes? added 206 characters in body
Apr 17	revised	LED flashing parameters to best let a human count flashes? added 206 characters in body
Apr 17	answered	LED flashing parameters to best let a human count flashes?
Apr 17	comment	Implement gamification on Time reporting to minimize late reports? Good point. The emphasis on the most recent attempt is key - you've always got a chance.
Apr 17	comment	Implement gamification on Time reporting to minimize late reports? You might want to take a look at @FrantisekKossuth's rather dour answer, which nonetheless makes an interesting counterpoint. How do you motivate the bottom? Esp. if their delays are out of their control? If all you end up doing is rewarding those who already are successful, you may not address the business problem - the people who are not.
Apr 17	comment	Implement gamification on Time reporting to minimize late reports? As grumpy as this answer seems, it's a really interesting point. How do you motivate the bottom? Perhaps rather than a single high-score list that compares all to all, you somehow make it relative to peers, or only compare yourself to yourself and encourage improvement.
Apr 12	comment	What is the name of this kind of pattern/component? Might only work on initial signup? I just did this on math.se without problem or delay.
Apr 12	comment	Explaining “circular reference” to a non-technical end user A snake eating it's tail would make a good image below a simple explanation.
Apr 10	comment	What is the name of this kind of pattern/component? if you link your SE accounts, you get a 100 rep boost.
Apr 9	comment	How can I maintain usability on a slow system? How bad? 6 seconds? 60 seconds? 600 seconds? (Realizing it varies.)
Apr 9	comment	What the best way to allow a user to re order items in a large list This is a bit tricky to imagine - can you whip up a mockup?
Apr 9	comment	What the best way to allow a user to re order items in a large list "More fine grained ordering" - I wonder if simply "starring" favorites, then keeping them permanently fixed at the top (or provide a link to filter by fave) would suffice - see GMail. Starring is pretty easily understood these days.
Apr 9	revised	What voice should an option you don't want users to change be written in? edited body
Apr 9	comment	What voice should an option you don't want users to change be written in? @PhilipW totally agree (I almost did that in the orig mock)! Updating mockup...