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…
When I was a kid I read about Eddie Feigner. He was a softball player who founded a softball team who would play with just Eddie as pitcher, a catcher, first basemen and shortstop. 4 versus 9. He was that good. He called his foursome The King and his Court and they traveled the country…
I saw that Google released 3.0 of its browser. I checked out the list of the features, thinking “Hey, if they went to 3.0 then it must be something big!” Look at the list. It has virtually nothing. Its a few bug fixes. Why do people bother with numbers? Why not just call it Chrome…
Last night I attended a meeting of the Interaction Design Association, specifically it was a mini conference on Prototyping. This is a free organization that started as a mailing list, but has since spread throughout the world with many local chapters. So far, I like it very much. I presented for 5 minutes on the…
The nice part of being born on May 22 is that it often lands on Memorial Day weekend. Memorial Day weekend usually has pleasant weather and lots of activities to choose from. On Saturday, we lounged around the house all day and watched TV and napped. Oh, what a wonderful day. Sunday, we went to…
Always try to use verbs for your affirmative and negative actions. Imagine the button is a normal person (not an engineer) saying exactly what they want to do. Example: [Cancel My Subscription] [No, Keep it]. Make it crystal clear what the buttons mean. Never use OK and Cancel. OK isn’t clear. Besides, the user wants…
I found the radio I lost. One might say it is a waste of money to buy the new radio and ear buds when I found the old ones, but I feel quite the opposite. Buying an inferior solution made me value the old solution even more. It made me all the happier to be…
I was at Ethan’s (9) elementary school open house. He was showing me all of his sculptures, paintings, poems, stories and other materials. He made this one piece of artwork using colored tracing paper. Of course, there were 20 pieces like this next to it, but Ethan’s stopped me in my tracks. Unlike the others,…
My parent’s used to call it “Shpilkas“. It basically means “ants in the pants”. I feel like that about my blog. I constantly want to change things like the theme or the plugins. A few days ago, I changed the anti-spam plugin back to WP-SPam from Mollem. I am not sure why I did this.…
I recently lost a little $15 radio I had. It wasn’t fancy, but it was small and got the three stations I listen to. Since losing it, I tried to replace it and have struggled to find something decent. My first try was the iPod Radio adapter. It’s way too expensive at $50, but I…
Usually, I use IconExperience icons. They rarely let me down. Often, I will need to combine and manipulate them slightly, but their base set makes this very easy. 2500 icons in 5 different sizes with shadows and without in a neatly organized set of transparent PNG files. However, for Marketo‘s next big product launch,…