Apparently the blogger who writes “Creating Passionate Users” is discontinuing the blog. Take a look at the graphics at the bottom. Each one is genius. Absolute Genius. They really capture the designer’s dillema. Thanks for the inspiration, sorry to see you go.
I came across the relatively new Microsoft Ajax for asp.net and decided it had been a long time since I looked at asp.net. I sat through the video. In some ways, it’s awesome. It is so full-features, and so integrated into the IDE (Visual Studio). VS is really an awesome…
I upgraded Penny’s computer to Vista yesterday. I had my eye open for UX issues, just for professional curiosity. There were so many screw ups, that I got a little depressed. In the install, Microsoft has moved to a system that says virtually nothing about what is going on. I…
I went to an Orthopedic to check out my elbow. It had beeen bothering me for a month or so. He says its tendonitis and will go away. I told him, "Not in my family it doesn’t. Once we get hurt, we stay hurt." But he gave me pills and…
A guy on the jQuery mailing list asked how to achieve a goal. He had a table with checkboxes in them. He wanted the last checkbox to change the values of all the ones in that row. The first answer came from Roman Weich which was: $(‘input.rowChecker’).click(function(){ $(this).parent().siblings(‘.updateItems’).find(‘input[@type=checkbox]’).attr(‘checked’,this.checked);}); I loook at…
The Sheild Season 6 started last night. It is the best show on television. Forest Whitaker is the hateable bad guy ever. He needs to be shot. Love this show. Matthew is wearing underwear for a few hours a day. WOO HOO! He also is obsessed with that punk rock…
I just finished Katherine Graham’s Personal History. It was a very good book for 60% of the book. it went decidedly down-hill after that. I think that her earlier life held alot more interest for me because she was talking about human relationships and famous people. The later life focused…
JavaScript Libraries are definetely changing the way developers approach the client-side. Richness in the UI is becomming easier and easier. (Remember designers: With great UI power comes great UI responsibility.) What is happening now is an explosion of different libraries that all do similar things in different ways. Of course,…
David Foltz over at Turbotax pointed me at this video. I think it’s brilliant. Apparently they are having a content for the best Turbotax rap. Now that is some inspired marketing. They should put this on TV. Their regular commercials are boring and stale. The work I did with Turbotax last year has…
My whole body hurts. It hurts to type. I played tennis yesterday and today for 2.5 hours each. I joined a 4.0-4.5 league. The competition seems right. My physical game is ok, but my mental game is horrible. I am constantly trying to STOP thinking about my game. Whenever I…
I was checking email this morning with Matthew on my lap. He slid off and sat under Katie’s desk. I immediately recognized this action. He needed to go #2! So I jumped up and said, "Come on Matt, let’s go sit on the potty." I put him on the throne…
I am interested in writing a book. It’s hard to get started and get organized. The theme of the book is this: People who know HTML and CSS, but are newbies or know nothing about JavaScript can create nice looking but static websites. They can’t add interactivity unless an engineer…
It was 12 years ago tomorrow, St. Patricks Day. I went downtown in NYC with my cousin Andy. We hit Jack Dempseys Bar. Is that the right one? I saw this girl across the room smiling at me. I asked Andy if he knew her. he said, "Her name is…
I saw this article while searching for the use of animated logos as "please wait" icons.http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511284.aspx It is part of a larger UX guidelines kit from MS regarding VIsta.http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511258.aspx Amazingly, it is quite objective and even harsh against certain Microsoft tendencies. I think it’s awesome that a company can be…