How to Redesign Your App Without Pissing Everybody Off The era of User Generated Discontent began about a decade ago, when a critical mass of people started using social apps on the web often enough that they felt...
All Dashboards Should be Feeds Last week, we announced the new beta release of ThinkUp (if you’re a geek or developer, try it out!) and one of the reasons I was most excited to talk about...
Aesthetic Integrity An application that appears cluttered or illogical is harder to understand and use. Aesthetic integrity is not a measure of how beautifully your applicatio...
Not a Moral Obligation, a Social Obligation Mitch Wagner has a provocative, comprehensive, and entertaining look at the recent conversations about Apple and the enterprise over at InformationWeek entitle...
100 Perfect Pixels: Vox Neighborhood This is the third post in a series where I’m pointing out some nice little touches that take up less than a 100×100 pixel square on a screen. Today’s is from t...
The Windows Apps You Never Need To Install One of the interesting things about being a serious Windows user is that very little attention is paid to efficient users of Windows, and that we suffer from a...
Web Development Trends for 2006 Curious about what technologies and techniques are going to be popular in the coming months and into the next year? Well, our crack team of editors here at das...
Be an average user Many of my friends are technological know-it-alls, and we all tend to ignore default settings and not do the things that software recommends. Part of this is j...
Review: The Elements of User Experience The Elements of User Experience is not just the first book to list all of the related skills and disciplines involved in the creation of web sites, but to cr...
review of the Elements, and updates New in Magazine , a review of The Elements of User Experience , JJG’s new book . Yes, he’s a friend. Yes, I (mostly) praise the book. That’s because it’s...
iframe RPC You should all know that Eric is a goddamned genius. His remote scripting system using javascript and iframes is just brilliant and, frankly, I resent him...
In an interesting divergence from In an interesting divergence from the "the logo in the upper-left corner takes you to the homepage" convention that has been with the web for years n...
Usability is dead, users are Usability is dead , users are too smart to need it. No, that’s not true . Well, at least on this one Jakob’s right....
Dug up this old article Dug up this old article by Tog about Interfaces That Kill , probably the only situation worse than what people are saying about the design of those ballots in...
Okay, now I know I Okay, now I know I had talked about standardizing website navigation a few days ago, since Apple and Amazon and everyone else have tabs on their sites now. B...
Pregnancy Parking Spots So naturally I am back at the parents’ homestead in Pennsylvania, and I found it interesting that the local mall had something that I’ve not seen anywhere els...
