The Windows Shell team has a new aggregated blog at shellrevealed.com, which includes posts from everyone from Raymond Chen to Dave Vronay. A great way to stay on top of what’s happening with the team that is most critical to the Windows user expe...
Jeff Han, a research scientist at NYU, demonstrated a prototype of a gesture-driven user interface at TED 2006. The “interface-free” UI (I hate terms like that) is demonstrated with several interesting demos, which hew towards data visualization i...
I write my blog posts on an irregular basis and always schedule them to appear the next morning at 7am. For some reason, Movable Type has not been publishing these for the past few days. Not quite sure why… Sorry about the lack of content.
While I was off recruiting impressionable, young college students to come join Microsoft over the past two days, Apple announced a slew of updates, including a new version of iTunes. Unfortunately, Apple seems to have beaten iTunes 7 with the ugly...
Five years ago today I woke up to a beautiful fall day in Minnesota. It was sunny, warm, and full of possibilities. I, like everyone else, never expected any of what was to come. I was shaken to my core by a phone call I received from my girlfrien...
Microsoft’s experimental photo gallery-sharing application, Project Max, was just updated for the first time in six months on Friday. This latest release requires .NET FX 3.0 RC1, and offers you the ability to view RSS and ATOM feeds, weirdly enou...
Kathy Sierra, co-creator of the O’Reilly Head First book series (including the super-cool Head First Design Patterns book), has a very long, very passionate post on some of the fundamental disconnects product creators have with their documentation...
I was browsing through this blog’s profile on Technorati a few minutes ago when I noticed that someone (besides myself) had marked this as a favorite. Feeling pleased, I decided to see who it was: turns out that Tantek Çelik, CTO of Technorati, W3...
Parts two, three, and four of Jared Spool’s Spoolcast are also available. Part 1: Description - MP3 - Transcript Part 2: Description - MP3 Part 3: Description - MP3 Part 4: Description - MP3
Jared Spool, noted usability guy and wiseass (read his bio), introduces the Spoolcast, a roundtable podcast, covering a variety of topics. Episode 1 includes the following topics (and thankfully does not feature a Jamaican alien with floppy ears):...