The Help Desk (via My Confined Space – be warned some of the other stuff there isn’t particularly safe for work – or particularly good – but the video clip is a corker) The Museum of Lost Interactions (via Boing … Continue reading
I’ve recently been talking to a number people about the “release early, release often” mantra. If you’re working on a new web app for the mass consumer market, be very wary. “Release early, release often” was written with open source … Continue reading
Esther Dyson, a well known and very successful venture capitalist (think flickr, del.icio.us & more), gave a short speech at Minibar in london on friday. It was great to hear her talking passionately about User Experience. Basically her message was … Continue reading
Joel Veitch is a minor media celebrity. He’s behind rathergood.com,a major contributer to the rather wonderful b3ta.com. If you’ve seen the rather popular punk kittens clips – that’s him – and he’s done commercial work for Virgin, Channel 4, Switch, … Continue reading
Introducing… the TV-out cable! So some people are excited about living room “Media center PCs” (AppleTV, Windows MCE, etc) and some people are ridiculing the idea. I get this feeling that when making this judgement, people tend to think of … Continue reading
If you haven’t already seen the Reuters news article about this, check out this table showing ipod Nano (2GB) prices across the world: Note: prices are shown in £5 bands (to make the table smaller).
According to Diggnation, Microsoft ran a number of focus groups for Office 2007 and asked people what new features they wanted Office to do. They gave a list of needs and nice-to-haves. Funnily enough, all of the requested functionality was … Continue reading
Touchscreens. Pockets. Keys. Big Fat Thumbs. These things haven’t managed to go together very well in the past … but have Apple managed to crack it with the iPhone? The great thing about physical buttons is that they stay in … Continue reading
The enchanted office Microsoft using a comic to sell the benefits of the new Office UI brought home to me what a big event this is. This is going to affect more people than any other piece of interface design … Continue reading
Proponents of various abuses of Flash and Ajax cleverness have a frequent defence of their sins: “I’m allowed to break the back button, bookmarking and ‘open in new window’ and all that other stuff people take for granted because that … Continue reading