Oct 29, 2006
Letterman rocks
You're trying to put words in my mouth just the way you put artificial facts in your head. Crooks and Liars has the Letterman interview of Bill O’Reilly up. Good stuff.
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Oct 28, 2006
Cheer up, emo kid!
I dyed my hair black for halloween earlier today. I also bought black eyeliner and the world’s ugliest button up sweater. I am, god’s word, being an emo kid for halloween. In a few minutes, I am going to wander over to QFC and buy a six pack of PB...
Oct 28, 2006
Ui Design
Unexpected value in paper prototyping
Jan Miksovsky talks about unexpected value found in ‘crude’ prototyping: A counter-intuitive principle of soliciting early design feedback is that people reviewing a highly polished design may concentrate on superficial details and overlook fundam...
Oct 27, 2006
Windows
The other 90%
One of my favorite adages in software development is that the first 90% of your project takes 90% of the time; The last 10% takes the other 90% of the time (my other favorite is “time, quality, features: pick two”). I discovered this firsthand a l...
Oct 26, 2006
Innovation
Six years, one face
A guy I work with just forwarded this onto me. It’s a bit outside the scope of “UI Design,” but still interesting. Noah Kalina has taken pictures of himself everyday for the past six years, every one of which is archived on his website and also in...
Oct 25, 2006
Web Design
A poorly debugged set of device drivers
Proving once again that black is the new pink is the new bell bottoms, Don Dodge today links Om Malik, who states that: The browser is the new OS. Yes, we've heard this before, and if you're quietly groaning right about now, I can understand why.....
Oct 25, 2006
Accessibility
Suing for Accessible Surfing
From the Associated Press: Last month a federal judge in California allowed the [National Federation for the Blind's] case [suing Target Corp. for an accessible web site] to proceed, rejecting Target's argument that its Web site wasn't subject to ...
Oct 24, 2006
Meta
Iâm Back
I got back into Seattle last night at 11PM Pacific time. I actually feel pretty good right now, which is surprising given that I was in the air for 17 hours yesterday (ATH to ATL to SEA), and traveling for a total of 24. I’ll be back to a regular ...
Oct 23, 2006
Web Design
Are you Web 2.0 enough?
So, the guys from 30secondrule.com were apparently sitting around… commenting on how so many people are talking Web 2.0 this and Web 2.0 that, and while so doing these people point out one or a dozen sites or features or hacks, yet it’s still near...
Oct 22, 2006
Customers And Community
Bingo!
I just found a fantastic blog entry on user experience bingo. Ever seen bullshit bingo? Same thing, except with Ux terms. As the author of these bingo cards, Mark DeHoog, puts it, I seem to hear this cry from so many in many leadership or industry...