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…
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 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,…
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…
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…