I just loathe public misspellings. There’s something about the laziness of it all and total disregard for its intended “user” that really pisses me off.
Now I know this isn’t one of my clearest photos. I made the mistake of leaving the house without my camera, and when Orian spotted this I insisted he take a [...]
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Tags:Pain·Photography
Last summer when I was watching American Idol or some such thing, I walked into the kitchen during a commercial break but was quickly drawn back when this caught my ear:
“The fun part is taking complex technology and making it easy to use for customers.”
– Jason Johnson, UI designer for the Ford Focus SYNC navigation [...]
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Tags:Branding·Pleasure·User Experience
Big thanks to Caroline McCarthy for interviewing me for her latest CNET article, “Facebook, Google, and the data design disaster” featured in her column The Social.
Caroline asked me what I thought of the new Facebook homepage redesign, as well as Google’s apparent obsession with data (above good design, as exposed by designer Douglas Bowman in [...]
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Tags:Articles·Design·Facebook·Google·User Experience
Earlier this week I told you about the 600+ people that attended the boxee NYC meetup at Webster Hall on Tuesday.
We’ve gotten some great press since then, and I wanted to share it.
First, you can read boxee’s own recap of the event on their blog and check out TechSpank’s video coverage.
Also:
Boxee Gears Up For Beta [...]
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Tags:Consulting·Pleasure·Props·Startups·User Experience