As I was going over the Triboro Bridge on the way to JFK on Friday, I saw a metal staircase high above the traffic that construction workers use to access the top of the bridge tower. Seeing it from a distance made me appreciate for the first time that a staircase is great design. It’s [...]
Entries from June 22nd, 2008
Plurk You
June 20th, 2008 · 10 Comments · User Experience
I’ve been wanting to write about Plurk for a while. Everyone seemed to be so enamored with it when it first launched, but maybe that was because Twitter was experiencing serious downtime and people were pissed off — not because it was anything actually worth being excited about. The first time I logged on, I [...]
Tags:Design·Onboarding·Pain·Pleasure·Social Networking·User Experience
Links from 6/9/2008 to 6/16/2008
June 16th, 2008 · No Comments · Linkage
Adobe TV – CooperCooper's tips and tricks on using Fireworks the PIXEL IMPLOSION!Bobby Anderson's visual design/icon portfolio Patterns for Designing a Reputation System » Yahoo! User Interface BlogBy Christian Crumlish @mediajunkie Screencast: Finder Window Icon Trick @ Dan Rubin?s SuperfluousBanterNever knew you could add "quick links" to the Finder window Mark Zuckerberg – Dickipedia – A [...]
Tags:Links
Tim Russert dead, so says Twitter
June 13th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Twitter
Tim Russert is dead at 58 from an apparent heart attack. And I found out via Twitter. Before it was on CNN. Before it was on the New York Times. Before I could Google it anywhere, Tim Russert’s death was reported on Twitter. This is the power of word-of-mouth. If you page back in the [...]
Tags:Twitter
Bluefly don’t bother me
June 13th, 2008 · 5 Comments · User Experience
It’s been hot in NYC lately. Very hot. So it’s time to buy some more dresses. But being the busy woman that I am, I don’t have a ton of time to go shopping. I decided to check out a few websites to see if anything caught my eye. I’ve never shopped at Bluefly.com, but [...]
Tags:Pain·User Experience
