Archive for February, 2007

Contactability Versus SPAMbots: What to do?

28Feb07

Here’s an issue that both touches on usabil­ity, as well as this blog itself: A vis­i­tor to this blog noted the lack of con­tact infor­ma­tion (such as my email address) in plain view. My answer to him was that this is partly on pur­pose. As many peo­ple know, when you leave your email address on […]

Warning, Warning! Danger, Will Robinson!

18Feb07

At one of my favourite sites, Infos­thet­ics (see my blogroll), they note that the UN has come up with a new Warn­ing Sign for Radi­a­tion. Here it is: Accord­ing to the report, this sym­bol is… the result of a 5-year project con­ducted in 11 coun­tries around the world. the new sym­bol, devel­oped by human fac­tor experts, graphic […]

How Small is Too Small?

15Feb07

As I started to cus­tomize dif­fer­ent Word­Press Themes for this blog, I found myself at one point edit­ing some icons: the ones that appear next to the date () and author (). These icons are 9 by 9 pix­els, which is prob­a­bly the small­est graphic that I’ve ever edited in a UI, at least something […]