Food For Thought

Today I would like to review some design/dev blogs with great characteristics of usable “How To” type articles. There’s an abundance of tutorial style articles, but nothing is worse that hitting a tutorial that confuses it’s users. If you are starting up your own blog, or already running one

A couple of weeks ago, a co-worker and I had a nice little debate about whether the       “+” / ” -” for an accordion/toggle element should be left aligned or right aligned.

Following my instinct, I felt it was appropriate that it should be left aligned since most readers read from left to right, and having the “+” / “-” icon close to the label on the left also gives it that extra indication that this element is collapsible. I also saw it closely related to how file trees are represented in common applications.