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…
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…
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…
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…
Women! Am I right? yes, I am right. Typically, I don’t find this sort of thing amusing, but this one really made me laugh. It made me think of Katie. She has so much crap around the house that I look at and think, “We don’t need this! Seriously, we…
I turned 36 yesterday. The day started off rough with a huge mistake I made and some scrambling to fix it. It kept going with details and a million things to deal with. I got a bunch done. Some good product management candidates coming in next week. Then we went…
I can’t get this commercial out of my head. Make it stop.
Mozilla just posted a Release Candidate of Firefox 3. I had installed a beta a while back but things have changed much. The browser doesn’t crash on me anymore, but more importantly, everything that uses JavaScript launches twice as fast. Gmail is really zippy. So is Marketo. EXT apps are…
UPDATED HERE As previously posted 6 months ago, I had been working on a solid design for HTML emails that would work in every client. The design of that email worked pretty well. However, since then, I kept getting asked to do the impossible. Rounded corners, curved strokes and shadows. …
Go to http://maps.google.com and search for your house. Then click “Show search options” to the right of the search box. Notice the box “Restrict Results to:” Change the box to “Real Estate” Click search again Notice the left hand side shows real estate listings. Click one of the listings. Click…
I love detective work, figuring out how things work. Here is a quick sample. Rey Bango (proud new papa) posted about a plugin called ShareThis. The reason he posted it was because they are using jQuery on their website. So I click around and see that it has a WordPress…
Katie and I just finished watching Dan In Real Life. We liked the movie very much. It was a little formulaic, but the direction, acting and writing were good enough to overcome the formula. The story had a big family on a yearly reunion as the backdrop. It reminded me…
Rachel Luxemburg was kind enough to forward me this report from Jakob Nielsen on how people read on the web. I have always known that people do not read a web page the way they do a book or email. On the web, people will skim. They will pass whole…
The boys and I attended the Markers Faire last weekend. We first went in the morning and then had to leave for little league practice. Then we biked back without Matthew to spend time before Katie had to go to the Opera. Both times, we forgot the camera. Ugh! How…