Usability is a big topic but sometimes it can be very small things. Say, one line of JavaScript (well, jQuery in this case):

$('my_important_input_field').focus()

This is a small big thing that is ridiculously easy to implement and yet so underused.

I’m currently slowing down the feature development on the MixifyRequests-site and concentrating on little finishing touches like this in preparation of an official 1.0 launch. I already did one release concentrating on reducing technical debt (by improving the codebase in general, adding more tests, etc.) and now I’m kind of doing the same with UI and copy.

This is usually the part of software projects that gets neglected the most due to tight deadlines and budgets, so it’s fun to be able to do it with no hurry.

(This post was originally posted to my other blog called Spinning Code.)