First impressions are important. I was asked by someone at Generic Frame to look at their prototyping tool, so I wrote down the impressions I got after using it for about a half hour. Warning 1: I didn’t like it much. Warning 2: I don’t like prototyping tools in general.…
Say the name of the product depicted below. Every word makes me salivate. Oh my god, I want to shove 20 of these in my mouth and make my blood sugar spike. It’s not the name of a product, it’s a list of yummy ingredients. Each cookie probably shortens my life…
I have no idea what I was thinking. Why did I install Windows 8 on my Samsung Series 9 laptop? It was running great. I was happy. Now, I have this ridiculous operating system with its horrible Metro UI. Can you tell I don’t like it? The start menu disappeared. All these…
A few years ago, my wife gave me a Ukulele as a birthday present. Although I had never played an instrument before, I found the ukulele delightful and easy to play. It’s soothing and fun and easy to carry around. People love hearing it. Lately, I have been giving it…
Video of my presentation from Wakanday JS Everywhere conference 2011. [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/32621476[/vimeo]
I hate when people are complainers, but not problem solvers. If there is a problem, then let’s figure out how to make it better. It doesn’t have to be perfect, it just needs to be better. Football analogy: 2 minutes left, down by 5. Don’t throw the bomb. Just move…
The difference between a task completing or not is often about knowing the right button/gesture to tell the system what you want. My son (6th grade) has been writing more and more reports on the computer using Microsoft Word and PowerPoint. School reports are exactly what MS Word was designed…
It’s always so hard to make the leap. Most people defend the status quo. It’s scary! Who wants to leap out into the unknown and risk failing? What if you miss the mark and fall/fail? (I never noticed how similar those two words are.) However, the reality is: If you…
Truth: Most products are not that good. I don’t blame terrible designers or unreasonable managers for this. The bottom line is: It is incredibly difficult to develop a product that is great. I mocked up a diagram to help explain. Imagine you are in space, with a basketball. You are…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuIJRsAuCHQ Let’s just assume you don’t have sound because the music was pure ridiculousness. I don’t want to get hung up on the cheesiness of the video. I want to focus on the unicycle itself. Here is my description of the features: Like a unicycle, but requiring less skill. No pedals…
Charts are always a superior way of delivering key information and hopefully to elicit and emotional response. If you can get your audience to understand the data on an emotional level, you are much more likely to get them to act. Here are a dozen interesting charts on wealth distribution…
Q: Can the font, Comic Sans ever look good? A: Comic Sans is meant to be used for comic book circumstances. Normally, these are ALL CAPS. Looks fine in that circumstance. Like this:
Halloween increases your positive Karma. It is a proven fact. I read that somewhere. It fills your soul with sunshine and lollypops. I strongly suggest that you get dressed up each year. Here are some of the types of costumes you get: The Full Monty This is when someone spends…
My hands are not small. My pockets are not small. I want a bigger phone. I don’t want to hold an iPad up to my head, but I do want a bigger phone. Here it is: The Samsung Galaxy Note. Apparently it will be available in Europe first this weekend.…