From A to Z
I just noticed something this morning. I always knew the arrow was sort of a smile. The M and the A were the eyes and the arrow was the smile. However, I didn’t notice that the arrow goes from A to Z until today. From A to Z. They don’t…
Internet Advertising
Check out the chart showing history of online advertising spend. It’s fascinating. This is why Yahoo still exists, even though they are getting clobbered by Google.
3 Business Models
Business Model #1: Enterprise This is when your product costs over 100k. Maybe even in the millions. The sales cycle is pretty long. It requires lots of documents to make the sale and build the product. RFI, RFP, MRD, PRD, Roadmap, the list goes on and on. This is a…
Matthew and Katie
This is EXACTLY how Katie and Matthew interact. Except replace Lois with Katie.
Household Income, 2006
This is an update to my post previously about income in the United States. Based on 111,617,402 households in the US as of 2006. Household Income, 2006 Total People Percent Less than $49,999 57,218,480 51% $50,000 to $74,999 21,221,889 19% $75,000 to $99,999 13,214,551 12% $100,000 to $199,999 16,145,482 14%…
The UX of positive feedback
A nice review of Marketo. I really feel like Marketo is starting to gain momentum in a serious way. Articles like this make me feel all warm inside that I was able to have a positive impact on a company and on the people who use the product. This raises…
Microsoft Tech
I am so far behind in my usage of Microsoft technologies. I haven’t installed Windows Server 2008 anywhere. I haven’t installed Exchange 2007 on any system. I haven’t tried Sharepoint Server 2007. I feel so lame. They have SP1 on these for crying out loud. I am way behind. I…
What Microsoft should do about Windows
This will probably never make it to someone who actually matters on the Microsoft Windows team, but who knows. It’s worth a try. You never know. The Microsoft WIndows team should spend the next 3 years NOT adding new features. They should spend the entire time improving performance and quality. …
jQuery UI 1.5
jQuery has just released version 1.5 of their user interface module called “jQuery UI”. Maybe not the most snazzy of names, however, the module is a major leap forward for web developers and application developers. You can see the details at http://ui.jquery.com although the high interest has crash the server,…
Surfing
Every once in a while, I do a little exploration on the web to look for interesting things. I don’t do it that often because it is a road that leads to everywhere and I could get lost for hours. However, I feel compelled to do it a little bit…
Design Pitfalls
I wrote this a while back for the book too. It described the design process in most organizations as I perceived it. I cleaned it up a bit and made it into HTML instead of a Word doc or PDF. I called it Design Pitfalls. This is another in the…
The UX Series – IA
I was looking at some of the documents I produced in writing the book. I really like some of them. They don’t string together like a book, but taken individually as just a single serving of UX, they actually are useful. Well, I think so anyway. I am going to…
Ajax News and random
Three bits of interesting UI news today. First is a spotlight from the ExtJS blog called VersoChat. Mostly, I just read the blog, skimmed their website and looked closely at the big JPEG on EXT. Default skin, but very nice icons. I wonder where they got those ones. The Information…
Bad Allergies
Wow, today is a terrible allergy day. I took a claritin, but I still feel awful. Maybe this is punishment for being mean to Katie. She deserves better. I woke up and my eyes immediately started bleeding, then I started sneezing. I took a drink of water because I was…