WordPress is evolving alot. I am running 3.6 beta 1. The new add post page has all these “formats”. I don’t quite understand them, but the icons look great. (I wonder what they do!?) I suppose I will try them over the next few weeks. I also upgraded to the…
I think my reading comprehension must be pretty bad. It would explain why I always Use PowerPoint with few words in presentations Write with fewer words on websites. Ignore long emails OK, I have to explain that last one. I don’t ignore it completely. When I see a long email,…
I have been an avid user of Google Reader for years. I was stunned by Google’s announcement that they would shut the service down. Literally, I check it and read 10-20 times a day. I don’t like my news getting stale. But they are discontinuing it, so I needed to…
I used to LOVE April fools day. It was a chance to make gullible people believe the craziest things. Pranks and humor is a time-honored part of the start-up world. Creative people love this “no holds barred” day of fun. My favorite prank was on my father after my third…
Today, I counted 9 unmatched socks. That’s 9 worthless socks. The problem is a UX one. They all look different. Because they all look different, if I lose one of the pair, I can’t match it up with another “same” sock. I appreciate socks that are colorful and let me…
Very often, a market can be disrupted by a single UX improvement. That improvement may not be easy to accomplish, but when you do it, you often can build a significant company. Some examples: CRM Seibel was the dominant player in Sales Management. Salesforce.com comes along and says, “It’s in…
I look at websites alot. People I am recruiting, companies I interact with, even just for professional curiosity. One of the key things I look at is the text. I look to see if the text is written for web readers or for someone else. My guideline is to make…
Recently Google “upgraded” their user interface for Google Images. I use Google Images ALL THE TIME. I am big on presentations with large graphics and I find their service invaluable. There is one spot, however, that is annoying me to no end since their “upgrade”. (Heavy use of air quotes and…
It’s all so clear to me. This is the year that everyone will have perfect hindsight.
On my design team, the main work product is PowerPoint storyboards. We deliver these files to Engineering. In a nutshell they include: Size of the PowerPoint depends on the complexity of the feature: The Good PartsI haven’t seen other people use this methodology, but it really gives a very clear way…
I originally typed my HTML in Notepad on my 75 MHz Windows 95 desktop. It wasn’t very helpful, but then again, HTML wasn’t that sophisticated at the time. This was in 1995. Very shortly after that, I discovered Homesite, a program by Nick Bradbury. Homesite was better than anything else and stayed…
I like Microsoft’s new service SkyDrive. It’s like Google Apps and Google Drive. Inexpensive, tightly integrated with MS Office 2013. All-in-all, very satisfactory. However, I have one gripe. In the Word web app, it doesn’t autosave. The Excel one autosaves. The PowerPoint and One Note apps autosave. Even the Excel…
I manage a team of 4 designers at Marketo. The company is doing quite well and UX Designer here is a central function. We are looking to add another member or two to the team. If you are interested (or know someone), please apply as a UX Designer. Designer Characteristics: Creative.…
The reality is that everyone has negative feedback about any design. It doesn’t mean that it’s all stupid feedback, although much of it is exactly that. However, it does mean that a designer is constantly bombarded with negative critique from design peers, management and executives, engineering and product management. It…