Archive for the 'Design' Category

Part Of My Job Is To Become Irrelevant

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

I was IMing with Mr. Davis this morning and he asked me to bring some usability smack down to a Habari discussion on Google Groups. To whit (and wit) I responded:

me: Make it easy to use by everyone. Done and done.
mr. davis: Yeah, okay. If it was that easy, you wouldn’t have a [...]

The New Face of Web Standards

Monday, November 26th, 2007

Back in 2003, a book called Designing With Web Standards was published by New Riders Voices That Matter imprint. The book was quickly, and rightly hailed as the go to book for, well, designing with web standards. Anyone who found themselves in a job where the web was their medium was impacted by [...]

Apple Wants Your Feedback, Sorta

Friday, November 9th, 2007

I just lost all my videos for my iPod Touch.
When I went to sync this morning, I got a message saying there was some purchased content on the iPod that wasn’t in iTunes. I thought that was odd, but thought, “How nice of iTunes to keep track of all this for me.”
But once it [...]

How I Wish RSS Subscribing Would Work

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

This wouldn’t work for every use case related to RSS subscription, but I think it would work for many people. Most importantly, it would work for me and that’s how good design solutions begin.
This is the workflow for how I subscribe to a site’s feed now (click on the images to see them embiggen)…
Click [...]

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