Today is day 2 of AjaxExperience 2007. It is the first conference I have attended since Usability Week 2006. I have met lots of great people, like Bill Scott from Yahoo. He worked on their design patterns site, which I think is something every good designer should read. Also, Brian Cherne of…
Logos are so tough. Every group needs a logo to hang its hat on. You need it for t-shirts and mugs and business cards and letter head. There are hundreds of companies out there, as well as freelance designers who will make a logo pretty inexpensively. However, only some logos…
I used to hate wearing hats. They would feel uncomfortable. I never used one while playing tennis until this year. At some point, I bought a can of tennis balls that came with a nice looking hat from Wilson. I wasn’t wearing it, but while playing tennis I started to…
I have had a fish tank for a few years now. I have progressively increased the size of the tank over the years, but it’s still not huge, as fish tanks go. Its 29 gallons. Still, that’s actually alot of water. It’s very heavy too. You need serious furniture underneath…
I woke up early this morning. I didn’t want to wake up early. I have no idea why it happened, but once I am up, there is no going back. So I did some chores. I cleaned the fish tank. I added one additive that I am hoping doesn’t kill…
What is this? It’s like a little cursor nose. [image lost – sorry] UPDATE: John Resig of Mozilla and jQuery fame has provided the answer. To Firefox this is a feature when you mix right-to-left or left-to-right text-directions. The little tick tells the user which direction the text should go.…
I just read a blog post by Ben Nadel stating “Don’t let great be the enemy of good”. At work, I am constantly struggling with “What can we do quickly and what would be perfect?” As a UX Designer, I know that even the slightest flaw can be a pimple…
Katie printed out an article for me, from the New York Times entited: Technology’s Untanglers: They Make It Really Work. There are several misconceptions here. Ones that I think are fairly widespread. For the record, I am NOT a usability professional. I am a UX Architect. If you prefer UI…
Since switching to Lunarpages.com, I have been pretty happy. Speed is good. However, they just allowed something to happen which kind of annoyed me. I had installed the latest version of WordPress when I switched over and imported my blog. After a while, Lunarpages got the upgraded version of WordPress…
I was looking for a site that used a particular UI element called a “slider”. Sliders are horizontal or vertical bars with an indicator on top. You slide the indicator back and forth to tell the system a particular range or value. These are useful in specific circumstances, but don’t…
There are alot of speed tests on the web that look at javascript libraries like jQuery. All of them have been getting faster and faster. I used a MooTools template, which was actually pretty easy to set up. I pointed it at my blog rather than the typical Shakespeare script. …
I had never installed a blackberry (crackberry) server before and really hadn’t thought much about it. Apparently, it’s a pretty complex architecture. The software, which installs on the exchange server, has a zillion options. From a UX standpoint, this thing is a disaster. I imagine this is because there are…
The New York Times reported that the senior official in charge of their Food and Drug oversight was sentenced to death for corruption. In America, Scooter Libby was sentenced to 3 years in prison for leaking the name of Valerie Plame to the press, a treasonable offense. He was then…
Recently I was looking at Veoh. It seems to be a YouTube competitor. It has a nice UI and works pretty much the same way as YouTube. However, they allow you to download any of the videos, if you register. They also have a Veoh Player, but as far as…