I owe you a proper recap of Leah Buley’s earth-shattering presentation at the IA Summit, but because my computer battery had died and I was taking notes on paper, I’ve been lazy about typing it all up.
In any case, one of the things she talked about was the importance of using Design Principles to guide [...]
Google’s Design Principles
April 28th, 2008 · 5 comments so far
Tags:Design·Google·Methodology
How Bebo Ruined My Life
April 1st, 2008 · 2 comments so far
My story, sad but true.
While doing research for the blog post I wrote on Sunday comparing the “People you may know” feature of various social networking sites, I made the soon-to-be regrettable decision to add friends to my Bebo account. Like many services of their kind, they allow you to import your address book in [...]
Tags:Google·Networking·Pain·Social·Webapps
Google goes dark
March 29th, 2008 · 1 comment so far
No this is not an error. This is actually what the Google homepage looks like today. Google has “turned the lights out” on their homepage in support of Earth Hour.
On Saturday, March 29, 2008, Earth Hour invites people around the world to turn off their lights for one hour – from 8:00pm to 9:00pm in [...]
Tags:Activism·Community·Google
(In)Consistency in keyboard shortcuts
March 7th, 2008 · 3 comments so far
More and more I’ve been using web apps in lieu of the traditional desktop applications I used for years. Primarily it’s because, like many of you, I have a home computer and a work computer; storing information online makes it far easier to access from both locations, particularly when one’s a Mac and one’s a [...]
Tags:Google·Pain·Productivity·Usability Evaluations·User Experience·Webapps
Links from 3/2/2008 to 3/5/2008
March 5th, 2008 · No comments yet
Facebook Hires Google Executive as No. 2 - New York Times
iPhonic: Steve Wozniak has another pop at the iPhone
Will Tomorrow’s World Still Need Designers? / frogblog / frog design
35 Ways to Stream Your Life - ReadWriteWeb
Data is the New Links
Tim Berners-Lee Says Sites That Don?t Give Users Their Data Back Are Boring
Official Google Blog: Hello, [...]
Tags:Articles·Facebook·Google·Links·Mashups·Pioneers·Tools·Twitter·WordPress

