I just loathe public misspellings. There’s something about the laziness of it all and total disregard for its intended “user” that really pisses me off. Now I know this isn’t one of my clearest photos. I made the mistake of leaving the house without my camera, and when Orian spotted this I insisted he take [...]
Entries from March 31st, 2009
Photo of the day: The Huanting in Connecticut
March 31st, 2009 · 1 Comment · Photography
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Old news: UX in the mainstream
March 30th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Pleasure, User Experience
Last summer when I was watching American Idol or some such thing, I walked into the kitchen during a commercial break but was quickly drawn back when this caught my ear: “The fun part is taking complex technology and making it easy to use for customers.” – Jason Johnson, UI designer for the Ford Focus [...]
Twitter FINALLY turns replies into mentions
March 30th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Twitter
My dreams have come true. Twitter has finally turned their Replies functionality into what they’re calling Mentions. For more than two years, replies consisted only of tweets that began with the person’s username, leaving us to search for ourselves to find all the other tweets where we were mere mentions. Now that Twitter has killed [...]
Interviewed for “Facebook, Google, and the data design disaster”
March 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Articles, User Experience
Big thanks to Caroline McCarthy for interviewing me for her latest CNET article, “Facebook, Google, and the data design disaster” featured in her column The Social. Caroline asked me what I thought of the new Facebook homepage redesign, as well as Google’s apparent obsession with data (above good design, as exposed by designer Douglas Bowman [...]
More great press on the boxee NYC meetup
March 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Consulting, User Experience
Earlier this week I told you about the 600+ people that attended the boxee NYC meetup at Webster Hall on Tuesday. We’ve gotten some great press since then, and I wanted to share it. First, you can read boxee’s own recap of the event on their blog and check out TechSpank’s video coverage. Also: Boxee [...]
