I was looking at the packaging of my Arm & Hammer toothpaste this morning. It has metallic inks, embossed card, and plastic lamination. The box probably cost more than the contents. It’s kind of pointless given that everyone chucks the … Continue reading
The OLPC (aka the ‘hundred dollar laptop’) has a ‘View Source’ button on the keyboard. See if you can guess which one it is in this image here. The motivation for this is to let kids ‘under the bonnet’ and … Continue reading
Lifted. A funny short film from Pixar, with bad UI design featuring heavily in the plot. Thanks to Andrew Harder for sending this one round…
If you don’t know much about Personas, or have your doubts about them, read this article and the comments thread over at Signal vs. Noise (the 37signals blog). Here’s an excerpt: We don’t use personas. We use ourselves. I believe … Continue reading
Interesting piece of copy in this Windows Vista dialog box. Basically it’s saying: Type your product key in now. But you don’t have to. But if you don’t, you could loose everything. And you might have to buy another copy … Continue reading
“Oh shucks Sandy, you’re such a card! I wasn’t going to, but since you said it was going to be delightful, I think I diddly-will sign up to your newsletter.” … For the record, when you want to entice newsletter … Continue reading
I’ve just discovered pagegangster – a very flashy Flash viewer for PDFs. You upload your PDF, in return pagegangster gives you a magazine-style UI where you can flip through pages, zoom, and do searches. it’s all very nifty looking. While … Continue reading
I’ve just switched from mac Office 2004 to iWork ’08. I mainly liking it, though I spent about 30 minutes yesterday thinking I was going mad over this mail attachment issue – you can’t attach Keynote and Pages files to … Continue reading
How many people are being sent .docx files every minute of every day only to find themselves unable to open them?
I was flipping through Allan Cooper’s classic “The Inmates are Running the Asylum” just the other day, and I noticed how in one section he has a little rant about how calendaring software is broken. “Many calendar programs are available … Continue reading