I recently got into a disagreement with the Director of Marketing for a Seattle startup that shall go unnamed. Her company recently went through a logo redesign project, and got a new default Powerpoint template out of the deal. I think it looks d...
One of my favorite websites, the Daily WTF, posted a laundry list of spot-on examples for how not to write an error message a few days back: Press 'Y' if you promise not to do it again. Error: 1>=0. No! - Bad User!!! ... Do not do this again! O...
Markus Mielke, a Program Manager on the Internet Explorer team, has published an exhaustively thorough list of changes to IE 7’s CSS support on the IE Team blog on MSDN. Markus also makes mention of the IE 7 Readiness Toolkit, which provides: ...
My friend Rob forwarded me a link to an interesting article this morning, entitled How to Get Teens to Pay for Virtual Content from MarketingSherpa (gotta love that name): Teens register for free and create customizable online characters called Ha...
Will Pearson - a blind doctoral student, Microsoft MVP, and one of my favorite people in the world - posted a comment on my blog this morning about the potentially adverse effects of creating a splash screen that’s actually too attractive: [M]ost ...
Jan Miksovsky wrote a while back about the dirty business of software updates. He describes the difficulty rich client software developers have with updating their software once it’s in the field (truer words were never spoken…it’s a serious pain)...
Tantek Çelik of Technorati, Microsoft, and W3C fame published a great article a few weeks back on how to create and serve better XHTML in eight easy steps. I missed this when it first came out, so maybe you haven’t seen it either. It’s all great s...
I’m hanging out in my apartment shirtless. I’m going to play Dead Rising on my Xbox 360 and 32” HDTV. While drinking red wine. I’m not sure what sort of message this sends, but I wanted to share it nonetheless. In other news, it’s my homedog Owen...
Last Tuesday, I wrote about Jakob Nielsen’s latest thoughts on screen resolution and web browsing. His conclusion was that you should optimize for 1024x768px, but ensure that the site is still usable at 800x600px. I also posted a breakdown of the ...
The GUIdebook is a fantastic archive of OS and application screenshots from the past twenty-plus years. I spent an hour last night browsing through it and rediscovering many old, almost-forgotten friends, including Mac OS 8.0. I could probably wri...
