Aug 06, 2006
Random Funniness
Paris Hilton. Again.
Paris Hilton claims she’s going celibate for a year. Unlike Rivers Cuomo, I think she’s a damned liar.
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Aug 06, 2006
Apple
Inexplicable Design Decisions in iCal
Since Tiger shipped in early 2005, Mail.app has gone from being one of my favorite mail clients around, to being my absolute least favorite mail client. It frequently displays unintelligible warnings like “The message could not be saved,” or it si...
Aug 06, 2006
Meta
Designing for that *Other* Interface
I, like many of you, spend most days thinking about how to put forth the most professional and attractive experience possible in my software. I used to think that as long as I could create high-quality, professional-looking software with a fantast...
Aug 05, 2006
Apple
Windows Developers vs. Mac Users
Drunkenbatman wrote a scathing review of the Meetro for OS X Alpha preview last December. I read his complaints about it last year when it was first published, and it caused me to go give their Windows version a shot. I found that the Windows vers...
Aug 04, 2006
Branding
Best Brands of 2006
Found through BrandChannel.com (of course): Interbrand in association with Business Week published a report on the best brands of 2006 (watch out, it’s a PDF). Topping the charts, not surprisingly, was Coca-Cola. What did surprise me, though, wa...
Aug 03, 2006
Accessibility
Usability
Web Design
Web Usability Pet Peeve #37: label is your friend
I am a bad little radio button I am a well-behaved radio button Notice the difference in the behavior of these two radio buttons? Try clicking on the text that accompanies the first radio button, and then try the second one. When you ...
Aug 02, 2006
Apple
Proper Care and Feeding of ISVs
Alright, so this post has nothing to do with UI Design, but it has everything to do with Experience (yeah, with a capital ‘E’). That is, it has everything to do with the Developer Experience. You see, developers create software. With tasty, lickab...
Aug 02, 2006
Books
Making Things Happen
The Art of Project Management Today’s blog post is a bit off-topic, but critical to any User Experience Program Manager’s success. Scott Berkun, a former Microsoft PM, allowed MSDN to excerpt the entire first chapter of his book, The Art of Pro...
Aug 02, 2006
Zoon Politikon
Elevators and Minnesota Senators
A great article on the microcosm that is the Senator-only elevators on Capitol Hill is to be found at the New York Times today. A few particularly amusing anecdotes are shared about the elevator, including these two about my beloved Minnesotans: S...
Aug 01, 2006
Web Design
Live Clipboard
Ray Ozzie, the Chief Software Architect of Microsoft, has an interesting demo of “webifying” the clipboard on his blog. The so-called Live Clipboard allows a user to interact with rich data on a webpage in a fashion that is much more akin to a tra...