lex parsimoniae
Disconnected rants
Thoughts on blog comments
This morning, I saw a tweet from Mike Figliuolo where he was sounding off about an anonymous comment on one of his blog posts, indicating that he’d left a “scathing reply”, and asking for reactions. As so often is the case, I started to leave a comment on his blog, but as it grew, I [...]
Thanks for the help
If you’re hypothetically considering changing the interface of your application so completely that users can’t find the stuff they need in the places where they’re used to finding it (Office, I’m looking at you…), you might be expected to have your users need to use “help” a bit more than normal. And if you expect [...]
Have we really fallen this far?
I am a grammar zealot. It’s entirely my Mother’s fault; she drilled proper grammar into my skull from an early age, and I now cannot help but notice the absolutely atrocious spelling, grammar, and punctuation that permeates our culture. Have you ever watched a history documentary where they read some crusty, tattered old manuscript that [...]
They finally made my hover-screen
I did a little double-take last week as I was leafing through my RSS feeds. Engadget had a story about a touchscreen that tracks a hovering finger: So what? About two and a half years ago, I wrote an article about usability where I ran into this exact problem while using a touch-screen phone. I’m [...]
Nothing short of world domination will do
A good friend of mine sent me an email commenting on the changes in Apple’s Developer Program license for the 4.0 iPhone OS, and I decided to share my thoughts here, as my email grew to become the tome you see here. Image via Wikipedia Apple has, as you’ve probably heard, indicated that it will allow [...]
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