There is a problem that I can’t seem to find a solution for. Check out this screenshot below. It is a screen grab of 12px arial from different browsers next to Photoshop trying to make the same font. (Zoom: 200%) Notice how the same text looks the same in all of the different browsers on…
I wish I had a magic analytics machine. You could ask it any question you want and it would blink a LED lights, beep boop a few times, click clack click and within 10 seconds, spit out the answer. It would be able to tabulate people’s thoughts or impossible data to collect. It could even…
Next time you are in a meeting, look around the table. How many people are working on laptops? How many are working on their iPhones, Blackberrys or Androids? How many are making eye contact with the person talking and engaging in the conversation? Some meetings are better than others, but every day I am in…
The media has been trying their best to keep changing the subject. It got me thinking about distractions. For example: If you were trying to focus the world’s attention on the Iraq war (2003) then you sure as hell didn’t want New Orleans to be submerged in water. If you were raising money for New…
I hired a new UX Designer who is in the process of learning about the company. It got me thinking about how many people go through this same process. I am sure there is a bell curve of people who have ample time to learn and others who are thrown into the deep end on…
Punchline: Yes! Business-to-business applications should have a sense of humor just like consumer applications. Enterprise users are human beings. They have Facebook accounts and Twitter accounts just like you do. They watch sports and sit-coms on TV just like you do. They laugh, they cry and have emotions just like everyone else. Enterprise users have…
Years ago, Bill Mirbach suggested I read the book When Prophecy Fails:A Social and Psychological Study of A Modern Group that Predicted the Destruction of the World. The book was about a group in the 50’s that predicted the end of the world. Several academics joined the group and studied it from the inside. The basic…