I couldn’t help myself. I downloaded and installed the Office 2010 technical preview. It’s definetely not baked all the way through, but it clearly shows the direction Microsoft is going. The big news is that Outlook now has a ribbon. Additionally, they have made some significant changes to the Outlook UI. There are two very…
Check out this example of the new Kodak Gallery. Lightboxes have been done and done and done again, but for some reason, people keep improving (thankfully) on the technique. This example really impressed me. Some details: Nice mirror effect under the image to make it look like it’s on glass. Small thumbnails of the next…
A friend asked me for a list of books that are required reading for a User Experience developer. Specifically, this friend is a graphic designer and might want to branch out to UX in general. Feel free to add to my list here. The Design of Everyday Things and Emotional Design. Read these twice. They…
I need to upload one of these to YouTube. Which one is better? Matthew singing Puff the Magic Dragon with me on Ukulele. Click each to listen. First Take: Second Take: Matthew is alot of fun to be around.
I had referenced this piece of art in a previous post. I scanned it in. It’s a little hard to tell, but the layers are made out of tissue paper. There is a third wave of waves that is faint in the picture. It looks best on a window with natural light coming through. Anyway,…
This is going to be a little esoteric, but if you are one of the 6 people in the world who do this sort of thing, you will be interested. We made an outlook plugin for Marketo. It will pull HTML Email templates out of Marketo, so you can send them from Outlook. The first…
Just coincidentally, I saw my presentation from Ajax Experience on Adobe TV. The sound is excellent. Original Page. Embedded below. Hmm, the embedded version didn’t show the presentation. Oh well, just click the link. 🙂 I always hate listening to myself. I sound like my brother and stammer way too much. I also say “like”…
For years my hair has been slowly sneaking away, as if I wouldn’t notice if it went slow enough. Maybe it’s a third-life crisis. Maybe it’s a stroke of genius. It might even be the silliest thing I have ever done. Whatever it was, I shaved my head. Matthew was very excited and wanted to…
I think I have a good idea. The government is paying currently to winterize hundreds of thousands of homes. The energy savings are enormous. I propose two things. First, that when they winterize the house, they also add a battery system. The battery system would have a universal input that companies could build products to…
After seeing Flash Catalyst, I thought it looked really sweet. So on my current design project I stopped making the prototype directly in PowerPoint and started making it in Photoshop CS4 instead. From Photoshop, the plan was to move them into Catalyst and add interactivity. However, I have yet to launch Catalyst at all. The…
I have never, as far as I can tell, blogged on another site. Well, there is a first time for everything, I guess. I just posted on the Marketo blog Modern B2B Marketing. The subject was Emotional Marketing, which drew from Don Norman’s book Emotional Design. Please check it out. Also, I clicked on the…
I was just talking with a friend about a product he thought had an excellent user experience. It is the Vibram FiveFingers shoe. These are really cool looking to me and I can easily see how they might be very comfortable. My friend said that they changed his life. He walks more now, hikes more.…
Lately, alot of spam has not been getting caught by Gmails filters. I get a TON of mail that ends up in the Spam folder. So much that I don’t even check for false positives. But lately a bunch has been sliding through. The weird thing is that it’s totally non-sensical mail. Take this one…