Three bits of interesting UI news today. First is a spotlight from the ExtJS blog called VersoChat. Mostly, I just read the blog, skimmed their website and looked closely at the big JPEG on EXT. Default skin, but very nice icons. I wonder where they got those ones. The Information Architecture (IA) is definetely designed…
UPDATED HERE As previously posted 6 months ago, I had been working on a solid design for HTML emails that would work in every client. The design of that email worked pretty well. However, since then, I kept getting asked to do the impossible. Rounded corners, curved strokes and shadows. As mentioned, Outlook 2007 doesn’t…
I love detective work, figuring out how things work. Here is a quick sample. Rey Bango (proud new papa) posted about a plugin called ShareThis. The reason he posted it was because they are using jQuery on their website. So I click around and see that it has a WordPress Plugin. Easy to install, (click…
I have seen this problem in several systems. One symptom is Word 2007 crashing. Another symptom is the Word Options do not allow you to click anything in the left tree. Thank you to Joe Stagner who posted a fix for the problem. It could be related to Snagit. I use that program lot. However,…
Quick history lesson: Apple Mac was easier. Windows 3.1 was more successful. Apple System 7 were easier/better then Windows 3.1. Windows 95 was as good as Mac System 7-8. Windows 98 was a little better, maybe. Windows 2000 was multi-threaded and was MUCH better than Mac System 9. Windows XP was a nice improvement and was MUCH…
Of course, I couldn’t help myself. I need my new beta software fix. Must use new software. The upgrade went flawlessly AS USUAL for WordPress. The UI is cleaned up and so far, I like it. I haven’t used it enough to really get a feel for it. Right now, I am trying the editor…
I’m up early again. I get ideas in the middle of the night and need to wake up and record them. Anyway, this is a follow-up from the last post. I think I have a new idea how to manage predictions in a software project. This would fit in nicely with a program like TargetProcess.…
Project management is hard work. I feel for anyone who has to do it in the software industry. The problem is simple. To do any kind of prediction in project management, you need to be able to guess how long something will take. Let’s say you want to build a web page. How long will…
I downloaded Internet Explorer 8 to install. It gave me an error saying, “IE8 is not supported on this operating system.” I am running Vista. Seriously? It doesn’t work on Vista?? What OS are they using over there? Vista is the latest. Are they really using XP? Man, Microsoft needs to work on Vista. This…
I just recently saw this posting by Eric Meyer on how browser makers and big companies interact and how browsers (and developers) are put in a bad situation. The short version is: Browser makers want to update their browser to follow standards. Terrible developers complain that their f**ked up HTML and JS will break if…
Forums have led a strange existence on the web for a long time. I have seen the evolution from AOL and bulletin boards to more sophisticated technologies with lots of features. The problem is, I feel that forums have not evolved and become more useful. My favorite type of forum is Experts Exchange. By using…
Recently, we got the Wii for the family. It has been a really interesting and well designed experience so far. Alot of great innovations are baked into this thing. The last week, we added a few new features. First, I downloaded the internet channel. The Wii connects to our family Wi-Fi network just like a…
Apparently a very old post of mine is on StubleUpon. Wow, this is from December of 2005. This link drove almost 200 visitors to the page. I haven’t ever used StumbleUpon before. I know what it does, but I just haven’t had the energy to try it. It’s amazing to me that so many people…
I have had a few days with the Wii and I have to say, it is one of the most innovative and interesting user experiences I have seen in a while. It certainly deserves to be up there with the iPod/iPhone. The device itself is small, about the size of a mac mini or a…