Microsoft has had a pretty rough time the last few years. Steve Jobs innovated like a mad genius and came up with the iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad. That’s alot of ground to cover and Microsoft has not been able to keep up. At best, they tread water. However, Steve Jobs is gone and I…
A huge portion of User Interface design is finding the right levels of abstractions. What I mean by this is that you have to decide what the information hierarchy is and how they map to mental models. Example System : WordPress Blog (Good)You have posts and pages. Those are objects within the system. Within those, you…
Iconography is a specialized talent. Working in such small confines making images that convey specific meanings. Previously, I have heavily endorsed using IconExperience. Over 2,500 icons in lots of sizes, with and without shadows. It’s a cornucopia of excellent images. They are very easy to mashup to create a nearly infinite set. Recently, I have…
One day, if I have a hundred million dollars, I am going to fund the following initiative: The Do Your Job Proposition From now on, all California propositions, initiatives and ballot measures will have an additional choice besides Yes and No called “I Don’t Know”. If the measure does not receive 51% of the popular…
I have been trying lately to speed up the performance of my blog. Steps so far: Remove about 25 plugins I really didn’t need. Remove plugins from my wife’s and brother’s blogs Switch to the TwentyTwelve theme Still, I was getting CPU throttling from my host. It still wasn’t fast enough. I didn’t install a…