Last night, I helped out a company called CVSDude with some UX stuff. An interesting question came up: What does “Dude” mean in the United States? Words have enormous power to frame what something is or isn’t. To evoke imagery or emotions, words are often the most overlooked part of the user experience. Here is…
Watch this video. 1944 knew how to entertain. You gotta see it to the end. Ethan asked if it was special effects.
I got this email the other day from Google. Hi, We wanted to let you know about some exciting changes to your Google paid storage plan. While storage costs have dropped naturally in the past few years, we’ve also been working hard to improve our infrastructure to reduce your costs even further. On Tuesday, November…
It took me a looooong time to get Office 2010 beta 2 installed. Uninstalling 2010b1 was a disaster. I had to manually remove hundreds of registry keys to kill the thing. Finally, I got the new version installed. This is a very interesting release. Microsoft has spent quite a bit of time working on the…
Still using the HTC Touch Pro 2. I don’t hate it although there are some significant flaws, like the placement of the “sleep” button. It’s exactly in the most annoying place. Anyway, Microsoft has been threatening to release a 6.5 upgrade ROM for my device, but no dice yet. Meanwhile, they released the Windows Mobile…
About 80% of my spam falls into 4 categories. Drugs. Makes sense, they spend alot of money on marketing and are complete scumbags. Diploma. This is mostly ONLINE diplomas, which I assume are just scams. More scumbags. Russian. Sometimes I translate the email and see they are actually lawyers in Moscow. Why would I want…
I forgot to post this. I took this picture with my new phone (HTC Touch Pro 2) on my first day of work. The rainbow actually ends at the office building at Adchemy! Is that a good sign or what?
Here is a list of awesome movies that you might not have appreciated their kickass awesomeness. They are all redonkulously good. The Last Dragon. Greatest movie ever made. I dare you to watch it and not love it. In the final scene if you don’t jump for joy, there is something dead inside of you.…
Popeye is one of my top 10 greatest movies ever made. It’s the attention the detail and subtlety that makes it so good. There are deep emotional and intellectual subjects tackled even though the movie has a simple root. From the role of taxes in a society to poverty to the simple emotional need to…
I have an addiction to answering questions. I can’t stop myself. I want to (have to) help. I used to use Experts-Exchange.com alot. However, they have no UX section and once I stopped using jQuery, I didn’t find it that compelling. I tried StackOverflow, but I got locked out of my account and can’t get…
I went through more of my spam folder and found more false positives. I have a suggestion that I think will help. I think the filters need an update. Specifically, I am suggesting that you allow users to make a custom filter like this: If it is called spam by GMail, AND It contains any…
I work up thinking it was an hour ago, and missed the train to San Francisco, so it looks like I will miss the last 3 hours of the conference. Still, my opinion of the Business of Software conference is that it is the best conference I have ever attended. Not that I have been…
This morning, I opened up my email and had a strange experience. No email. Really? None? So just on a lark, I checked the spam folder. Mine was full of 3600 messages. So I started looking through. Before too long, I had 10 false positives. Ack! No wonder I think GMail does a great job…
I upgraded to Firefox 3.6 just to try it out. In Windows 7, it did this subtle thing which completely annoys me and forced me to uninstall. In earlier versions, the window at the bottom worked properly. Now, it creates this multiple window model in the bar. When I CLICK on the Firefox icon, I…