Archive for the 'Usability' Category



The Fune: “It’s Really Hot!”

20Aug09

I know some of these are cheap shots, but I had more than a few chuck­les with this par­ody. I par­tic­u­larly liked the mon­strously bad user inter­face and indus­trial design, and how it mim­ics old ‘rotary’ phones.

Two Examples of Good Online Software

05Jun08

As I men­tioned in my other blog, Loud Mur­murs, next week I’ll be at Apple’s World­wide Devel­oper Con­fer­ence in San Fran­cisco. Nev­er­the­less, I’ve seen some web soft­ware, lit­tle things, that have really impressed me, and one of them was con­nected with the con­fer­ence. Here’s the first one: The Devel­oper Con­fer­ence has a very full sched­ule of […]

Surface: Microsoft’s Sexy Coffee Table

31May07

I’ll bet that there are days at the Microsoft cam­pus when some groups are work­ing on a super-secret project that they just wish they could tell the world about it. In fact, keep­ing their secret must drive them crazy. Espe­cially when some other com­pany comes out with a sim­i­lar project to the one they were […]