This week in ux-clinic: How to cut a bad, shipped feature
This week in the ux-clinic discussion group: I’m on young team that has finally admitted to itself that a…
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Dud on arrival: why important buildings flop (Slate)
Slate has a nice slide show by the famed architecture critic Witold_Rybczynski about major works of architecture that were…
This week in ux-clinic: Beyond don’t make me think
This week in the ux-clinic discussion group: Recently, I switched from working on consumer websites, to the more staid,…
Seattle: Crash course in web design & usability
Biznik is a fun Seattle business networking group – they host local events and meetups for people looking to…
UI makeover: del.icio.us
Back at the Emerging technology conference I presented a quick and dirty makeover of several popular web 2.0 sites…
CHI 2007 – We want you
CHI 2007 , in San Jose, CA 4/28-5/3 2007, is the big dog of UI conferences – it’s one…
This week in ux-clinic: The requirements to design gap
This week in the ux-clinic discussion group: I work for a large medical software company that attempts to follow…
The architecture at Google
There’s a great little article on Metropolis all about the design and architecture of the Google campus. The authors…
This week in ux-clinic: Drive by critiques
This week in the ux-clinic discussion group: One of the bad habits in my company is the drive-by critique:…
Replacing the desktop (not yet)
Every so often the urge surfaces to replace parts of GUI, like Menus, toolbars and the desktop. This popular…
Small tales of technology failure
Every now and then I’ve seen airport arrivals boards showing only the blue screen of death – This time…
Saving the world by laptop
The most challenging design works involve big constraints, noble goals and few rewards – and one candidate for design…
Sacred places: NYC architecture tour report
As part of the GEL 2006 conference I ran an architectural tour through NYC, focusing on sacred places. What…
Three great machines and innovation limitation
I’ve owned only three great machines – three devices built so well that they not only lasted more than…
Gel ’06 re-cap
Gel is my favorite design conference – this year did not disapoint. Four really smart things GEL does: Short…
This week in ux-clinic: The horror of the small screen
This week in the ux-clinic discussion forum – the horror of the small screen: “WooHoo! We just shipped a…
Writing for Seattlest on design & architecture
As part of the Gothamist empire of city blogs, Seattlest covers all that’s happening in the greater Seattle area.…
This week in ux-clinic: Being the UX hero
This week in the ux-clinic discussion forum– Being the UX hero: Our group is in the process of launching…
Surviving the blue sky project (This week in ux-clinic)
This week in the ux-clinic discussion forum– Lost in the tag cloud: Here’s this week’s situation: We finally got…
Clever designs: Top ten alarm clocks
From uberreview The top ten alarm clocks. They rank them by annoyance, but from my perspective these are all…