I have been using Powweb.com for a couple years now, I think. I signed up for a 12 month program last July. Since then, the ownership of Powweb has changed. Since the switchover, I have seen degrading performance. FTP is slow, sometimes painfully slow. This website is sometimes slow and…
Google has opened the “beta” of thier new Analytics interface. It looks nice visually. Alot of UI improvements. They use fmore flash now. Most of the charts are bigger, which is good. But I still think it lacks some “follow-through”. My main complaint stems from a simple action that I…
In tennis, there is a terrible disease called, “Your inner dialogue.” I have this in spades. I just recently got my raquet restrung with a different string. The pro said, the softer string will break sooner, and the medium string will have less touch. So when I played, I literally couldn’t keep…
So much to do. So little time. I find lists to help me organize my thinking. I had a dream last night that I was adding the Google Analytics script to http://js.commadot.com. I really should do that. Check out a JPG of the new Google Analytics version coming soon. I…
Nice article about OK/Cancel Buttons. I was researching this because I had to make a decision on Marketo whether or not to put the OK before the Cancel or vice-versa. Apparently, as this study shows, MacOS X and Windows do things very differently. Should the OK come first or last? …
UX stands for User Experience. We used to call this Interaction Design (IxD) and before that we called it User Interface Design (UI). Before that they called it Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Design. Additionally, people have called parts of it Information Architecture or Visual Design. Fundamentally, they are all the same…
I am totally stunned that I have gone so long without knowing this works. <div class=”foo bar”>ONE</div> <div class=”foo”>TWO</div> <div class=”bar”>THREE</div> Before today, I didn’t think you could make a single-line CSS statement that affected ONLY number ONE and not TWO AND THREE. Previously, I would do torturous workarounds. But…
I think I am starting to unravel a great mystery. Why do people who are not trained and not talented in UX insist on telling designers what to do? I pretended to be a business owner talking to a UX Designer. The UX Designer wants to do XYZ. I think to…
So after Danny slammed my style last time, I decided that commadot.com needed a refresher. First I started looking at WordPress themes. After alot of looking, this one caught my eye. I started hacking it from there. I changed the graphics, the text, the order of some things. Then I…
Truth be told, I use GMail as my primary mail program. I have been happy with the Google UX lately using Google Talk, GMail, Picasa, Picasa Web Albums and sometimes Google Desktop. Gmail is very good for mailing lists like jQuery. Much better than anything I have seen from Microsoft…
DISCLAIMER: UX Judgements are harsh. Don’t get upset or defensive. Ignore them if you wish, but like Simon on American Idol, what I say hurts, but it’s true. The date picker in Google Analytics on the left is not obvious. The only way to make a custom range is to…
I have been a fan of http://www.Experts-exchange.com for a long time now. I registered in Sept 2003 and have earned 23,285 points. It is fulfilling to help people. I love that. And the whole structure is set up to easily ask questions and easily answer them. Recently (last year) they…
I was close with my prediction. Adam Carriker went one spot before the Jets pick. I have mixed feelings about the draft. They got decent players, who will most likely start. But they also gave up alot of picks to get them. Statistics show that that you as much of…
I accidentally crashed IE7. I narrowed down the code to be a CSS issue. It’s surprisingly simple and very annoying. Code: Crashes IE7 Link2 Is span not allow to self close? Lame.