Pour a cognac, put on some Vivaldi, and spend some quality time soaking in the inspiration.
The path less traveled.
Pour a cognac, put on some Vivaldi, and spend some quality time soaking in the inspiration.
Nespresso is the Apple of the coffee business.
The changing rooms in many retail outlets are surprisingly overlooked, when you consider they’re often the place at which a consumer makes the final purchase decision.
Like most people fascinated with the potential that devices like the iPad have to change how we read and learn, I rushed to the App Store to purchase Push Pop Press’s highly-anticipated first interactive book, “Our Choice.”
Speaking of convoluted user interfaces, check out the Auto-Lock setting in Skype for iPhone: Take a big breath, and read this slowly — “Don’t Auto-Lock”…
This article at 9to5 Mac talks about the number the apps available on each leading mobile platform. To put things in perspective, they show a…
Today when I launched Daylite, it alerted me to the availability of a new version. I know from experience, though, that it’s bad news to…
I know from experience it’s really hard to always achieve consistency, so this is really more an exercise in conscious observation, than criticism.
Postini is a hosted spam service, now owned by Google, which filters your mail before it arrives to your account, placing anything it considers spam into a “quarantine”. When you ask Postini to deliver an incorrectly caught good message, it gives you the option of adding the sender to a whitelist.
A nice little UI/UX test is the “Squint Test” — i.e. as you look at a screen or interface, squint or defocus your eyes, and…
SPRINT ARE BRINGING OUT THE BIG GUNS, with this truly powerful advertisement for the, uh — not sure exactly what it’s called, The Sprint HTC…
Daring Fireball just linked to an article about how Toshiba’s new teaser site for its upcoming tablet sends a message to iPhone users. Well, here’s…
It seems Apple has no competition these days, and judging just from advertising, I’m thinking we’re a good ways off from seeing any. Why? Try as they may to copy, companies like Samsung just don’t get it. My colleague Alex and I today were discussing the striking difference in advertising, in the latest issue of Fortune magazine (which is full of Samsung Galaxy ads.)
I recently watched this interesting video from Amy Jo Kim about the application of game mechanics to functional systems — in particular social systems. For…
A few weeks ago, a Securitas salesman popped into the office, offering deep discounts should we be interested in upgrading our three-year-old alarm system. Given three years of technological advances, my expectations were high, and Securitas certainly delivered. In addition to the old features, we’ve now got magnets on the entrances, and their latest, easy-to-use alarm panel — which you’ll have to see to believe.
I remember, as if it were yesterday. I was sitting in the ground station laboratory at the European Space Agency, needing to setup a test…
CapitalOne could have emailed me with the following short note:
Due to forthcoming changes in our online banking, please visit the following URL if you access Bill Pay via Quicken: capitalonebank.com/betteronlinebanking . If you don’t do Bill Pay via Quicken, you can safely ignore this email.
I don’t do Bill Pay at CapitalOne via Quicken, and so I could have immediately got on with my day. Instead, CapitalOne chose a process which unnecessarily cost me about five to seven minutes of my time.
A while back, there was quite some chatter about DabbleDB, “a better web database to share, manage and explore your information.” The web application is apparently based on some impressive technology, at least based on a cursory exploration of the demos.
So today a friend of mine created an application at DabbleDB, and shortly thereafter an email arrived in my inbox inviting me to participate. I clicked the link, logged in, and was greeted by the following screen. I was left speechless. Regardless how good the technology is, in my humble opinion, the chances of this (or any product’s) success in the marketplace are severely handicapped by such disregard for the importance and critical roles that user interface and experience play.
My first _real_ job was a co-op position with the Georgia Power Company back during my university days. The company bought us all Macintosh computers…
I love Rory Blyth of neopoleon.com. [This post is hilarious][2], and reminds me of the [parking ticket machines][1] at the Málaga airport. [1]: /2003/07/10/a-model-of-usability [2]:…
This, in my opinion, is an example of quite poor user interface design. The image on the right (click the image for a larger version)…
Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, olny taht the frist and lsat…
The plane arrives late. We wait 45 minutes for the baggage to arrive in the terminal. The airport staff try to place a living room…
bbrown discovered what must be the world’s worst looking bank website. Check out the breathing blob.
