I have been a huge fan of LinkedIn for many years. How could you not have an up to date LinkedIn profile? It seems to be a “must have” for working in today’s world. Recently LinkedIn went public. The first change I noticed was a new UI. It wasn’t pleasant…
Axiom: It is extremely difficult to read and listen at the same time. About 99% of all presentations make this mistake. They load up the screen with a ton of words and then the host proceeds to talk. The problem is that people must choose between reading what is on…
Aza Raskin has done some excellent work regarding Modal dialogs. Almost every single application in the world has modal dialogs. They are nearly ubiquitous. One of Aza’s points is that a modal with just an [OK] button is nearly useless. I usually try to think about modals as if they…
A few good puns will brighten anyone’s day. Give it a try: The hand surgeon went to the ophthalmologist to be examined for carpal tunnel vision. Two astronauts who were dating put an end to it because they both needed their space. I told my friend about the creative writing class…
I love my Samsung Series 9. It’s sexy, light-weight, works fast. The backlit keyboard is super handy. Everything about it making me happy, except the fact that I couldn’t connect it to the projectors in the office. Until now… I purchased the StarTech USB VGA Multi Monitor External Video Adapter…
Where does your personality fit in? Confidence is good, but it can be taken too far and turn into arrogance. Humility is a virtuous trait, but taken in extreme and you don’t stand up for your design vision. It is extremely difficult to hit a bullseye. Who is humble and…
I recently reviewed a product that I can easily describe as “having alot of features”, much more than the competition. Interestingly, the competition has 1/10th the features yet is making 4x as much money. How can this be? Why would someone want to have a product with fewer features? Seems…
Every organization I have ever been a part of has a shifting org structure. Despite it changing all the time, people need to know who to contact in other departments and where people work and who they report to. This usually isn’t public information, but it should be available to…
Recently Netflix changed their prices, not that radically (in my opinion), but enough to make me reconsider who we are paying for the privilege of showing me a movie. Go to a Movie Theater This is the most expensive way to watch. On the plus side, you have the largest…
I have been a big fan of the StackExchange sites. They are extremely well crafted applications that fill a really important need on the web. I was miserable when there were two sites (uxexchange.com) and (ui.stackexchange.com) which split the community in half, so I was happy when they consolidated to…
Last week we went up to Lake Tahoe and had a nice time. It wasn’t as story laden as the last time, but it was pretty good. The highlight for me was doing some geocaching near Eagle Falls on the south end of Lake Tahoe. Check out this picture of…
I am completely boggled by the development strategy of Chrome. Right now, I am trying to collect various Chrome bugs in the application I design. Which version should I use for testing? How different are they? What’s the difference in the various branches? How will I know if the user…
Already Public: LinkedIn: 6.6B valuation Pandora: 2.3B Fusion-IO: 2.2B IPO in the next 18 months: Groupon: 20B? Facebook: 100B+?? I have been hearing more and more news about this company or that company filing for initial public offerings. On the one hand, this is exciting. Lots of money is going…
I went to REI on Fathers Day. They told me something fascinating. Their return policy is “Keep the receipt, but otherwise, bring it back whenever you want for any reason. Even if you lose the receipt, that’s ok.” WOW! With this knowledge in my head, I walked straight to the…