Flickr’s Improved Interface
For years, I have loved Flickr but hated its interface and navigation. These look to be improvements and time will tell if they are helpful. One thing I noticed right away was the great way that they showcase the new features and navigation. I invite you to click on over and play along — maybe you will spot the panda bear easter egg. Flickr's New Features Read More
Les Miserable Web Experience
Take a look at the screen grab below. It was captured while trying to purchase tickets to see Les Miserables at a theater in Paris. Needless to say, the tickets were not purchased as there was simply no confidence in what we were buying (it appears tickets are sold in pairs, thus if a person bought ’2′ …) or even how we might receive the tickets. I’ve seen... Read More
Can’t. Stop. Watching. This.
I feel very compelled to build a French Fry cannon at the moment. Read More
Hack Day 2010
First, I’ll explain the concept of Hack Day for the uninitiated. But I’m far too lazy to do that when I can just cut and paste what is already online at my favorite site to learn stuff, Wikipedia: … the term became a more generally accepted description of an event where developers, designers and people with ideas gather to build ‘cool stuff’ … The... Read More
Does Barnes and Noble Think We’re Stupid?
Despite my better judgment, I purchased a membership at Barnes and Noble. It was during a time when I found myself in the store more often than usual and actually buying stuff instead of sipping coffee and treating the place like my local library. Now that I’ve been a member for about a year, I have learned that I don’t really benefit much from the membership since I... Read More
Big Design Conference
The Big Design Conference in Dallas, 28-29 May, is arguably the best value in Web design-related conferences. Register today to see nationally and regionally-recognized speakers and network your brains out. I’ll be speaking on usability testing but don’t let that deter you from attending. :) Big Design Conference Read More
iPad Release Day
In honor of iPad Release Day, I offer a host of free iPad Design Templates and Stencils collected by Emily Chang. Enjoy! Free iPad Design Templates and Stencils Read More
Love Designing Experiences? Love Chemistry?
Here is the Periodic Table of Visualization Methods. Very clever. Very useful. Read More
Tomorrow Happens Here. I Mean, There.
And I don’t really mean tomorrow is happening right now. I am actually leaving tomorrow for SXSW. Also, not here but in Austin, TX. Man, this is making my head hurt. I think I’m going to go lie down. SXSW '10 Read More
Wireframe Idea
At the risk of posting a painfully obvious design technique, I wanted to share something I saw employed recently at work. The group responsible for this has the luxury of having a ridiculously long (18 feet?) dry erase board with which to display a large number of wireframes with annotations. Rather than just show the UI changes based on user inputs as a static series of printed... Read More
Unmeats
Interesting taxonomy/labeling going on over at the Domino’s Pizza Builder. Users can select meats and unmeats. This, from the people that print ‘perfectitude’ on the box. meats vs. unmeats Read More
Big Design Conference Presentation
The Big Design Conference was a huge success! Over 500 in attendance. It was a fantastic inaugural event. Overall, I think my presentation went very well despite display issues at the beginning, the person introducing me did not show up (shamelessly had to plug myself) and I had a complete brain freeze that lasted maybe an AGONIZING 2.5 minutes. Here is a version of the slides.... Read More
Presenting at Big (D)esign Conference 2009 Today
I really really wish I had taken the time to look over and rehearse the presentation I gave way back in March at IA Summit 2009. Why do I do this to myself on nearly every single public speaking engagement? I think I am an adrenaline addict. Or, I must like hurting myself in this way for the endorphin rush. Will post how well/badly it went. Read More
Something Good Out of Redmond?
File this under Last Year’s News, but a new font called Calibri is being distributed by Microsoft and it is actually good. If you have installed IE8, any Office 2007 product, or are running Vista, you have the font installed. In fact, it is the default browser font replacing Arial in IE, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint. It has also replaced Times New Roman in Word. I like that... Read More
Daytum New Year’s Resolution Continues
Starting on New Year’s Day, I vowed to track some pretty mundane statistics for an entire year using Daytum. Daytum is a pretty interesting concept put together by Ryan Case and Nicholas Feltron (author of the brilliant Feltron Reports). Daytum is currently in private beta and after receiving my invitation, I spent a few days trying to decide how I would waste spend my time... Read More
