Archive for the 'Duh' Category

Simplicity, Complexity, and Complicatedness

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

I’ve read a number of posts in the past 2 weeks about simplicity. Each post beleaguers the point of how things should be kept simple with a warning to those who make interfaces (in its most general meaning) too complex.
Let me keep this one short (ha!) and just skip to the rant: Complex is [...]

The Importance of © - QOTD

Friday, July 15th, 2005

“There’s much more than a dime’s worth of difference between “coined” and “copyrighted.”
A few weeks later, I find out that Barger has recovered his domain - and Robot Wisdom pops back up online. I hunt him down for a pint at a local pub and he tells me he’s moving on, this time to Memphis. [...]

File this under, “Yeah right…”

Wednesday, August 18th, 2004

DropCash was unveiled today. Wonderfully brilliant (and by that I meen straight forward, easy to use, and simple interface) implementation. I am sure Jason Kottke and Andre Torrez will be hearing a lot of that in coming weeks.
So I decided to try it out. Since I am a TypePad subscriber, my information [...]

On Usability and Usability Testing

Friday, June 18th, 2004

Disclosure: I live in an ivory tower.
Self-admonition: I need to start writing articles about the things I take for granted, because the topics tend to make people go WOW when others do it.
I get that most people don’t have the luxury of working in a development methodology that integrates usability (as a concept) at [...]

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