Category Archives: ux

A few weeks ago the artist known (again) as Prince was quoted as saying “The internet is dead.” I snickered at his naivete with the rest. Since then I kept seeing others quote the web is dead and wondering if … Continue reading →

I logged onto Google AdWords today and was greeted with this message. So apparently, 5 years ago they shut off the system for maintenance and plan to be finished 5 years from now. Such an inconvenience.

Ars Technica has an interesting interview with Michael Okuda, a production designers from Star Trek, titled the How Star Trek artists imagined the iPad… 23 years ago Okuda identified ease of use as a driving factor behind technology that the … Continue reading →

There’s an interesting post on six revisions about reductionism in web design. I’ll admit, I didn’t know it was called reductionism but that is apparently what I have been practicing in my design work, especially recently. The work I do … Continue reading →

Even though I am a Mac user, one of the reasons Safari was never my primary browser was it’s lack of extensibility. In fact that was the main thing that drew me to Firefox. Apple has now opened a Safari … Continue reading →

I just heard of a new innovation from Mozilla for Firefox. Tab Candy http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/tabcandy/ is a way to make groups of tabs and keep them in a desktop like space. It even allows sharing of the tab sets with other … Continue reading →

Pattern App http://patternapp.com/ is a wiki that allows UI patterns to be added and defined by contributors. For instance, there are lots of examples of “Spotlight Effect” and textual descriptions of the problem solved, when to use it, and other … Continue reading →

I noticed yesterday, Google rolled out a new design for image search. [UPDATE: After an alert co-worker told me I was crazy, I found out the the new design so far only appears on Firefox(Mac and PC), Safari (Mac and … Continue reading →

MIT shows their experimental invisible mouse, which tracks your hand on (presumably) any surface. It picks up on finger taps both, right-mouse and left mouse actions. Now, if it only had a scroll button, I’d be happy. Read about it … Continue reading →

I ran across this today. Yes, it is not directly related to user experience but who doesn’t like Legos?