Dafacto

The personal website of Matt Henderson.

What happened to UI/UX design at Garmin?

From the design of recent Garmin products, I'm guessing they fired their UI/UX team and delegated this activity to overseas outsourcing or something. To understand where I'm coming from with that

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Don’t want ValueWalk’s newsletter? Then please confirm that you suck.

Clicking through from Google Finance to an article about Apple at the ValueWalk website, my reading was rudely interrupted by the honking-huge interstitial modal popup window shown below (and

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Software testing and charging customers for bug fixes

In a recent update we made to a customer’s software system, a bug was discovered, which led to a discussion about (a) why the bug wasn’t caught during testing and (b) why we charge them to fix the

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Search for the elusive, perfect file & screenshot sharing tool

In my daily work, as well as the maintenance of three blogs, I frequently need a tool that allows me to conveniently share files and screenshots. This article discusses my search for that elusive

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Relative safety of various travel means

This infographic shows the relative safety of various travel means.

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Paying with my “Smarthphone”

Here in Spain, I can pay for parking with my Smarthphone. With my Smarthphone.

Trying to pay for my parking this way actually turned out to be an awful, and ultimately unsuccessful experience.

Parking

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BitTorrent Sync vs Dropbox

For many years, I stored the majority of my data in Dropbox. A few months ago, however, I migrated to BitTorrent Sync (BTS), and haven’t looked back. This article explains why.

Synchronization of

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When marketing trumps logic — Betterment on the Apple Watch

I received an email today from the Betterment brokerage announcing their new Apple Watch app as, “A smarter way to invest on the go.”

Of course, Betterment’s after the PR value of being among first

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Fuck you, iPhoneReviewer#2

About a year ago, someone in the United States going by the iTunes handle “iPhoneReviewer#2” spent nearly five dollars—three of which ultimately was paid to Makalu—to purchase a copy of our location

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UI/UX — Discovery flow in the new commenting feature at Dropbox

Dropbox emailed a few days ago announcing that they’ve added commenting, in support of better collaboration. I first came across this feature today, when accessing a file someone sent me.

Taking a

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