I am so far behind in my usage of Microsoft technologies. I haven’t installed Windows Server 2008 anywhere. I haven’t installed Exchange 2007 on any system. I haven’t tried Sharepoint Server 2007. I feel so lame. They have SP1 on these for crying out loud. I am way behind. I don’t have a server in…
This will probably never make it to someone who actually matters on the Microsoft Windows team, but who knows. It’s worth a try. You never know. The Microsoft WIndows team should spend the next 3 years NOT adding new features. They should spend the entire time improving performance and quality. The reason MacOS X is…
jQuery has just released version 1.5 of their user interface module called “jQuery UI”. Maybe not the most snazzy of names, however, the module is a major leap forward for web developers and application developers. You can see the details at http://ui.jquery.com although the high interest has crash the server, I think. I can’t wait…
Every once in a while, I do a little exploration on the web to look for interesting things. I don’t do it that often because it is a road that leads to everywhere and I could get lost for hours. However, I feel compelled to do it a little bit of the time and this…
I wrote this a while back for the book too. It described the design process in most organizations as I perceived it. I cleaned it up a bit and made it into HTML instead of a Word doc or PDF. I called it Design Pitfalls. This is another in the series of stuff from the…
I was looking at some of the documents I produced in writing the book. I really like some of them. They don’t string together like a book, but taken individually as just a single serving of UX, they actually are useful. Well, I think so anyway. I am going to package them up and post…
Three bits of interesting UI news today. First is a spotlight from the ExtJS blog called VersoChat. Mostly, I just read the blog, skimmed their website and looked closely at the big JPEG on EXT. Default skin, but very nice icons. I wonder where they got those ones. The Information Architecture (IA) is definetely designed…