This is going to be a little esoteric, but if you are one of the 6 people in the world who do this sort of thing, you will be interested. We made an outlook plugin for Marketo. It will pull HTML Email templates out of Marketo, so you can send…
Just coincidentally, I saw my presentation from Ajax Experience on Adobe TV. The sound is excellent. Original Page. Embedded below. Hmm, the embedded version didn’t show the presentation. Oh well, just click the link. 🙂 I always hate listening to myself. I sound like my brother and stammer way too…
For years my hair has been slowly sneaking away, as if I wouldn’t notice if it went slow enough. Maybe it’s a third-life crisis. Maybe it’s a stroke of genius. It might even be the silliest thing I have ever done. Whatever it was, I shaved my head. Matthew was…
I think I have a good idea. The government is paying currently to winterize hundreds of thousands of homes. The energy savings are enormous. I propose two things. First, that when they winterize the house, they also add a battery system. The battery system would have a universal input that…
After seeing Flash Catalyst, I thought it looked really sweet. So on my current design project I stopped making the prototype directly in PowerPoint and started making it in Photoshop CS4 instead. From Photoshop, the plan was to move them into Catalyst and add interactivity. However, I have yet to…
I have never, as far as I can tell, blogged on another site. Well, there is a first time for everything, I guess. I just posted on the Marketo blog Modern B2B Marketing. The subject was Emotional Marketing, which drew from Don Norman’s book Emotional Design. Please check it out.…
I was just talking with a friend about a product he thought had an excellent user experience. It is the Vibram FiveFingers shoe. These are really cool looking to me and I can easily see how they might be very comfortable. My friend said that they changed his life. He…
Lately, alot of spam has not been getting caught by Gmails filters. I get a TON of mail that ends up in the Spam folder. So much that I don’t even check for false positives. But lately a bunch has been sliding through. The weird thing is that it’s totally…
When I was a kid I read about Eddie Feigner. He was a softball player who founded a softball team who would play with just Eddie as pitcher, a catcher, first basemen and shortstop. 4 versus 9. He was that good. He called his foursome The King and his Court…
I saw that Google released 3.0 of its browser. I checked out the list of the features, thinking “Hey, if they went to 3.0 then it must be something big!” Look at the list. It has virtually nothing. Its a few bug fixes. Why do people bother with numbers? Why…
Last night I attended a meeting of the Interaction Design Association, specifically it was a mini conference on Prototyping. This is a free organization that started as a mailing list, but has since spread throughout the world with many local chapters. So far, I like it very much. I presented…
The nice part of being born on May 22 is that it often lands on Memorial Day weekend. Memorial Day weekend usually has pleasant weather and lots of activities to choose from. On Saturday, we lounged around the house all day and watched TV and napped. Oh, what a wonderful…
Always try to use verbs for your affirmative and negative actions. Imagine the button is a normal person (not an engineer) saying exactly what they want to do. Example: [Cancel My Subscription] [No, Keep it]. Make it crystal clear what the buttons mean. Never use OK and Cancel. OK isn’t…
I found the radio I lost. One might say it is a waste of money to buy the new radio and ear buds when I found the old ones, but I feel quite the opposite. Buying an inferior solution made me value the old solution even more. It made me…