Archives for 2009

Photo of the day: No breastfeeding

May 8, 2009 by Whitney Hess 36 Comments

Mike Dizon and I went out for lunch around New Work City one day. We walked past Pepe Rosso, a pasta take-out joint on Sullivan St. that Mike insists is the best around. So I poked my head in to take a look, and saw this sign hanging in the entrance: No breastfeeding in Pepe [Keep Reading…]

Photo of the day: Bottom loading instructions

May 7, 2009 by Whitney Hess 7 Comments

While at Graceland, I came upon a truck with operating instructions posted on the side. These might be the most confusing instructions I’ve ever seen. I’m well aware that I’m not the intended audience for this, but there’s so much jargon and such poor grammar that I can’t imagine anyone can understand what this is [Keep Reading…]

Twitter changes its email notifications

May 7, 2009 by Whitney Hess 15 Comments

By default, every time someone new follows you on Twitter, you get a notification via email (which you can turn off in the Settings, as I have). Yesterday I saw a bunch of people in my stream talking about a newly designed email notification so I decided to look into it. Here’s the old notification [Keep Reading…]

Volume 1, Issue 1 of the Journal of IA

May 6, 2009 by Whitney Hess 1 Comment

The very first issue of the Journal of Information Architecture was published yesterday, after much dedication and tirelessness from contributors around the world. The Journal of Information Architecture is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal. Its aim is to facilitate the systematic development of the scientific body of knowledge in the field of information architecture. The long [Keep Reading…]

Tips and Tricks for BlackBerry Users

May 6, 2009 by Whitney Hess 2 Comments

If you’ve been reading this blog for long enough, you know I don’t own an iPhone. How is it possible for a designer to not own an iPhone? Read one of my most popular posts: “Why I don’t have an iPhone (but might someday).” I am the proud owner of a BlackBerry 8830 World Edition [Keep Reading…]

Photo of the day: Whirlpool dishwasher utensil tray

May 6, 2009 by Whitney Hess 48 Comments

A few years ago I went out with a guy who made me dinner in his apartment. I’m going to refrain from saying what I thought of the food. But at the end of the meal as we brought the dishes into the kitchen, I noticed that his dishwasher had a unique design that I’d [Keep Reading…]

Twitter’s confirmation message is a usability fail

May 6, 2009 by Whitney Hess 11 Comments

Folks know that I use this blog to call out poor user experiences, and often I’ll get requests from people to discuss a particular usability failure that gets their goat. Recently my friend Michael Gruen asked me to talk about Twitter’s relatively new design for confirmation messages, a white bar that runs along the top [Keep Reading…]

Photo of the day: Tropicana grocery display

May 5, 2009 by Whitney Hess 4 Comments

I don’t want to beat a dead horse here. We all know that Tropicana redesigned their cartons and there was a major backlash from consumers. In the end it was pulled from the shelves, but not before Matt Knell was able to snap this unbelievable pic: Matt showed me this photo on his iPhone recently [Keep Reading…]

Photo of the day: A 90-year-old’s cell phone

May 4, 2009 by Whitney Hess 11 Comments

You know how you share one set of grandparents with your first cousins? I’m sad to say that my grandparents have all passed on, but I’m still very lucky to still have one nonagenarian in my life — my first cousins’ other grandmother. Her name is Jill and ever since I was a little kid [Keep Reading…]

My Interaction 09 recap on Boxes and Arrows

May 4, 2009 by Whitney Hess Leave a Comment

Interaction 09, IxDA’s 2nd annual conference, took place in Vancouver this year in early February. As usual, I live-Twittered most of the sessions and posted the tweets here on the blog: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3. The NY chapter of IxDA hosted an Interaction 09 recap event for those who were unable [Keep Reading…]