This has been itching me for a month. On May 30, Google had posted this blog about their original favIcon. I liked it. Simple G. Then they updated in January to the colorful g. Since then it has been distracting me. It doesn’t look like Google to me. It doesn’t…
Coincidentally, I posted a little UX thing about waiting spinners. Today, I see in Ajaxian a link to http://preloaders.net/. Very nice work. These are creative and different. Finally, we are taking steps forward. These are a great start. In general, we need to be creative and use spinners that are unique…
All three kids are coughing with a fever. What’s up with that? It’s like a germ factory in here! Next, Katie will get sick. For some reason, it rarely affects me. When I was a kid, I had to fake being sick the night before and then follow through in…
Wow, what a great game! That one play where the Arizona Cardinals were about to score and Kurt Warner threw an interception blew my mind. That swung the whole game by 14 points. Arizona would have one if not for that one play. The Cardinals outplayed the Pittsburgh Steelers the…
I love talking to groups about user experience. It is so much fun. Slideshow behind me and eyeballs in front, it is energizing and fun. I wish I could do it all day long. I have been doing my best to get better and better and the medium, but…
We have been watching the entire television series from Netflix for The Muppets. We watch it with the text “interesting tidbits” option turned on so we can read about the scene we are watching. The boys are loving it. The design of the show is brilliant. First the name, The…
Let’s say you are working on an application. There are hundreds of decisions every week, sometimes every day. Decisions can be big and small. How quickly should something animate? What color should the button be? Is it better 2px to the left or to the right? Decisions like these accumulate…
Consider the spinner. There are even sites to help you build these ubiquitous items. They serve a very useful function. At heart, the spinner is an animation to take your mind off the fact that the system isn’t instantaneous. They are also there to communicate to you, “I know what…
It looks like my WP-Spam plugin was getting false positives and blocking some users. It “might” be that it was conflicting with my MCE Comments Plugin. So I turned off both and took this as an opportunity to try out a new spam blocker plugin. I will turn on MCE…
Have you noticed these new little buttons on Google search? These are pretty interesting considering I haven’t really heard one blip from Google on the actual utility of this feature. I tried clicking on a few of them. Either it is affecting my own personal search ordering or they are…
I’ve been using Windows 7 on my home computer (Dell Precision 380), work (Dell Dimension 9200) and an old laptop (Dell Latitude D610). I haven’t put it in Katie’s laptop or the kids computer. Overall, there is a decent amount to like. Responsiveness is probably the number one thing. Some…
This morning I turned on one of our computers, a Dell D610 laptop. For some reason, the mouse just refused to work. The keypad wasn’t working, and the nubbin stick in the middle didn’t work either. I’m not sure what happened, but it’s like the devices just ceased to exist.…
I was using WIndows 7, happy as a clam, when I got a several BSOD (Blue Screens of Death). Turns out that there is some bug when the network adapter is trying to work too hard and runs out of something it needs and freaks out. (Or something like that).…
I made this my desktop background. It’s giving me a headache. Courtsey of Grand Illusions