I needed a color picker control for a project I’m working on in my free time (which I hope will see the light of day in the next week or two!). I ran across a couple very nice-looking ones during a cursory search. Hopefully they’ll prove useful to...
One of my biggest beefs with Apple is the amount of time and energy they expend on the ‘you must follow the Apple Ux Guidelines’ mantra, followed by releasing applications that look nothing look their own guidelines. What this ends up meaning to y...
I found a snazzy glossary of usability terms by way of Nikki Chau. It contains over a thousand entries on everything from accessibility aids to WIMP interface.
Positive Sharing discussed ten really cool workplaces yesterday, ranging from Pixar with their individually styled ‘huts,’ to Red Bull London with a series of slides to transport you between different floors. A Flickr feed with all of the pictures...
Dan Saffer, a Senior Interaction Designer at Adaptive Path, is the guest of the latest conversation on the Inkwell.vue. Dan recently released a book entitled Designing for Interaction: Creating Smart Applications and Clever Devices. I haven’t had ...
I’ve tossed this post into the marketing category, but it’s really anything but. Marketing, to me, implies a deeply impersonal one-to-many relationship. Blogs, coupled with websites like Technorati, give you the ability to manage one-to-one relati...
I attended the Venture All-Stars party tonight, followed by a trip over to my friend Rachel’s apartment to hang out and catch up. Rachel is a complete “n00b” when it comes to computers, and assumes that being Scobleized is something rather dirty. ...
I suppose this won’t come as a shock to many people, but it’s always nice to hear messages like this reiterated by people outside of the Ux community. Dharmesh Shah, author of OnStartups, posted an article today about seven key insights in selling...
Want to know how blind developers really work? Ask them. Sign up for the Blind Programming mailing list. Although I certainly do not speak for that community, the people I’ve spoken to have always appreciated knowing that the people creating devel...
I’ll be at Seattle Mind Camp this year. Will you? What happens when you put 250 of Seattle's smartest geeks in a creative environment for 24 hours? We're not sure either, but we'd like to find out. It's time to meet and connect with those involved...