usability

I think it’s a valid question at this point. I remember the first stuff being sold online which seems like an eternity ago, but was only about 15 years. Maybe to some people that IS an eternity. It seems both so short a time, but so far away.
Actually I don’t want to write about that [...]

gizmodo.com/5574821/uh-oh-adobe-porn-industry-prepping-to-ditch-flash
So looks like the biggest Porn house is going to stop using Flash tech as soon as IE8 starts supporting HTML5. (I won’t hold my breath, IE8 has really lagged behind the other browsers in supporting CSS3 and HTML5 but that’s nothing new. They’ve historically done things their own way…
The point though is that, whether [...]

Well we’re almost there, but every time I think we’re in the future we’re back in the present. Of course then all that stuff is in the past…
The image above, if you’re hopelessly clueless, is from the movie 2001. The main character, who would be much better captured by the great Roy Scheider in the [...]

Design means making choices. Choices about choices, even. What do you want your users to be able to do with your system? What choices do you want to give them? I think that in general, the better usability lies in restricting user choices as much as possible.
You see it everywhere. Like Microsoft vs. Apple for [...]