Web Usability panel
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 Posted in Design, Usability | No Comments »I just got home from a presentation organised by WebGuild which was a panel discussion on web usability. Met lots of interesting people of course, but the highlight for me was of course hearing Tom Chi, Jeremy Ashley, and David ...
“Social layer” vs “Social network”
Friday, June 20th, 2008 Posted in Design, Usability | 1 Comment »This afternoon we (Trovix) released Trovix Connect, the new version of our Trovix job portal. (incidentally, we've been using that as internal name well before Google Friend Connect and Facebook Connect!) I feel like we've kind of jumped on the bandwagon ...
Spamming users
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 Posted in Consumer issues, Usability, Web products | No Comments »One of the great things about Australia is we have a very strong department in the government called the ACCC. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission does a great job of keeping things fair in Australia between businesses and consumers. ...
The best feature of Firefox
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 Posted in Usability | No Comments »I may be a little late to the party, but in the last 3 months I've begun using this feature more and more: Typing something in the address bar does an I'm Feeling Lucky search on Google. Sounds simple, and perhaps not ...
Picasa photo tuning
Saturday, May 10th, 2008 Posted in Design, Miscellaneous, Usability | 1 Comment »This is a continuation of Part 1 of my Picasa discussion. I am continually surprised by how powerful the relatively simple photo tuning tools of Picasa are. Take for example this photo my wife snapped while flying from Seattle to ...
Picasa as an example of great design
Saturday, May 10th, 2008 Posted in Design, Usability | 1 Comment »I've been a long-time fan of Picasa, and it ultimately comes down to several reasons: It's fast. Very fast. It has a great UI. Functionality. Integration. Fast Picasa has been optimized to very quickly load, to handle large libraries of photos, and to allow very quick ...
Turn your iPhone into a wifi Skype phone
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 Posted in Design, Gadgets, Startups, Usability | 1 Comment »There has been a lot of buzz on the intertubes today about Fring. They're an Israeli startup who released a fairly popular mobile chat client. That's simplifying things - in addition to supporting every major IM client, Fring automatically logs ...
Apple’s take on brainstorming
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 Posted in Usability | No Comments »One thing I found quite difficult when transitioning from an engineer to a designer was the idea that blue-sky brainstorming was okay. I remember during one of my first brainstorming sessions, we were trying to come up with a novel ...
