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Dan Tynan of PC World just awarded Office 2007 with a big lump of coal as part of PC World’s 15 biggest technological disappointments of 2007 awards. I’m severely disappointed in this, especially given that the stated rationale is that the Ribbon ...
Slate’s posted a tremendously embarassing-looking unclassified Powerpoint deck from the CIA. The twelve pages present a sort-of who’s who guide of Powerpoint design mistakes. I don’t really fault the CIA procurement executive who created it, thoug...
One of my least-favorite pieces of software ever is Mail 2.x, included in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. What was a stable, reasonably performant, sensible, and usable mail client in previous iterations has become "hideously ugly," and "inflexible, inconsis...
Akamai and Jupiter Research issued a press release last week stating that any amount of time over four seconds is considered an unacceptable delay in loading a page on a retail website. They cited several negative consequences of ignoring said adv...
The Toyota Prius has a really handy in-dash display that gives you all sorts of information, like the current radio station, GPS maps, and so forth. It also displays messages to you under some circumstances, like the following one that I observed ...
Joel Spolsky and Jakob Nielsen are both big believers in conducting usability tests with no more than five people. Jakob has a few fantastic insights into this domain: The most striking truth of the curve is that zero users give zero insights. T...
I found a snazzy glossary of usability terms by way of Nikki Chau. It contains over a thousand entries on everything from accessibility aids to WIMP interface.
I suppose this won’t come as a shock to many people, but it’s always nice to hear messages like this reiterated by people outside of the Ux community. Dharmesh Shah, author of OnStartups, posted an article today about seven key insights in selling...
Joel Spolsky rips into Sprint’s new LG Fusic phone: All the "tipping point" theories in the world won’t protect Sprint from the basic truth that the LG Fusic user interface could basically serve as an almost complete textbook for a semester-long c...
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...
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