Steve Jobs & the power of ideas (via Give it Five Minutes)
16 March 2012
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3124-give-it-five-minutes If you aren't sure why this is important, think about this quote from Jonathan Ive regarding Steve Jobs' reverence for ideas: And just as Steve loved ideas, and loved making stuff, he treated the process of creativity with a...
Apple: Tabbed Inspectors Suck; Adobe and Omni get it right.
29 February 2012
Could you PLEASE redesign your OS conventions for big screens? Or at least afford some expert accelerators for people with big monitors? This drives me nuts whenever I use Keynote. Most common tasks: Bullet points, type style changes, and borders on...
Miss Manners on Interaction Design*
21 February 2012
"People who are deluged with information on a subject in which they have limited interest (apologies to the couple, but such is life) do not become increasingly informed. Quite the opposite. They tune out." -- Miss Manners' Guide to a...
Inbox Surprise via @iansilber
10 February 2012
via @iansilber: "This reminds me of an app I made called Inbox Surprise that would basically allow you to spam someone's inbox with something like this: http://cl.ly/3C08030R3M1v1P3M3s0l. Basically take ascii art and deliver each line as a new email....
EPIC SQUEE: Eames Elephants
7 February 2012
According to dwr.com, "Demetrios [Eames, grandson of Charles] recently took the Elephant on Safari, creating this film for the Eames Office. For a fun twist, mute the soundtrack and replace it with "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" by The Tokens."...
Cow Bezoars
7 February 2012
So I'm doing this project for one of the design classes I'm taking right now, and one thing led to another, and before I knew it I was reading all about cow bezoars on Wikipedia. Remember that scene from...
Stripper shoes: Still not okay.
7 February 2012
I look at all the stripper shoes on the market and think "Ugh. Who wants to look like a hooker?" And then I think "Uh-oh, I must be getting old." And then I think, "But no. They're stripper shoes."...
Is email on the iPhone a good idea (for me)?
16 November 2011
Responding to email on my iPhone mostly sucks, compared to the Blackberry I had previously. However, I'm not sure even a Blackberry could save me now. My role at Groupon means that I now get massive quantities of email...
Google Calendar: Your modals suck.
9 September 2011
Seriously, don't you ask your candidates about Fitts' Law during interviews any more? It's not like scheduling recurring meetings is an infrequent event, especially at a business, making this a merely occasional annoyance. This MUST annoy Google employees too. And...
Are you sure you want to leave this page? You suck.
2 September 2011
Dude. Make the options "Save my changes" and "Discard changes". For fark's sake, people. Also, it isn't just Facebook who does this -- I've seen this elsewhere. Probably Outlook. Addendum Wordpress does it too. (I hate Wordpress, but there's something...