Archive for the 'Design' Category

Halo 3 or How I learned to Stop Hating Microsoft and Love the Bomb Xbox 360

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

I picked up the September issue of Wired on my trip back from the West Coast this week to read about the development of Halo 3. I couldn’t really resist: The cover is Hazard Orange with Master Chief in stride. And it was that or Cosmo, and I’ve already taken all the quizzes [...]

If The User Can’t Find It, The Feature Doesn’t Exist

Monday, August 6th, 2007

I’ve been using Twitter since last November. I like it. Since most of my friends are virtual (in the sense that I only see them on a regular basis via computers) it’s a way for me to feel connected. Twitter does other things too, but this isn’t another post contributing to the [...]

Push Button. Receive Bacon.

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

Push Button. Receive Bacon., originally uploaded by Matthew Oliphant.
Someone at work recently sent out a request to see if anyone had done research on icons. Turns out I was the only one to respond.
I did a study on icons a few years ago. It was for my last job so it’s proprietary [...]

How To Run A Card Sort and A Little Bit of Why

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

Humans love to organize and categorize things. We do it all day, everyday. The trouble comes when one person, or a small group of people, sit down and decide how a set of items should be organized and categorized for everyone. Card Sorting takes a set of cards (imagine that!) with one [...]

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