Update: I have split this entry into a full category, which you can find at http://www.brethorsting.com/uidesign/books/. Future updates will end up in this category. I’ve spent a good deal of time over the years reading books on UI Design, User E...
Ajax = Chocolate = Happiness, and so we knew, when we started planning FogBugz 5.0, that Ajax features would be an important part of this release. FogBugz 4½ and Subjective Well-Being - Joel on Software Joel Spolsky, one of my favorite autho...
Not only do state changing links cause problems for robots, users who are accustomed to having links drive navigation can become confused when links are used to drive application state changes. Alex Bosworth's Weblog: Ajax Mistakes Alex Bosw...
Anyone reading this is probably aware of my, um, bias, towards Windows applications. With that in mind, Tim Sneath, a technical evangelist for the WPF stack in .NET FX 3.0 talks about how to add Aero Glass to the client region of a Windows Forms a...
I’m Aaron Brethorst, a Program Manager, software developer, HCI junkie, and a wicked Astropop player. Currently, I work for Microsoft as the User Experience Program Manager for the Developer Division, creators of Visual Studio, the .NET Framework,...
All we get in Seattle are 60 year old, five foot tall punk lesbians, midgets hitching a ride on the back of wheelchairs, and Link… No, Seriously – Let’s Hit It <p>Old Chinese lady: Ex-see-cus-see me. Old Chinese lady: Ex-see-cus-see me! Gangsta:...
I received some feedback on a document I wrote recently. The commentor stated: You can’t have a sentence with two colons in it. It just isn’t done. Make it two sentences. Or three. Maybe four. Sigh.
I just downloaded Flock, a “web 2.0 web browser,” which features integrated blog posting, delicious integration, and a number of other interesting features. Just giving it a whirl and seeing if it actually works… <p style="font-size:10px;text-al...
Also, I discovered all of my original blog posts still stored in an old database of mine here on brethorsting. They were an unfortunate casulty of my migration to Movable Type 3 a while back. Anyway, you’ll find them in the archive list; just st...
As a followup to Rrriiiiidge Racer! from last week, I have a five minute video presenting the absolute low-lights of Sony’s E3 Press Conference. Is it somewhat unfair? Yes, certainly. Does it take advantage of all the dumb shit Kaz Hirai had to sa...