Category Archives: User Experience

Tinycon — Favicon Alerts

Pretty sure I could count the num­ber of times I actu­ally looked at a fav­i­con alert on one hand, that being said nice work.

inessential.com – Fantastical and language detection

That is prac­ti­cally the def­i­n­i­tion of great soft­ware, caus­ing your users delight in the every­day workings.

O’Reilly Radar – The President’s challenge

The idea that we’ll be able to go back in time and make it harder for peo­ple to get dig­i­tal information/media/anything is just wrong.

Subtraction.com – Subscribing to The New York Times

Media com­pa­nies respect their cus­tomers or maybe not.

The Year of C.E.O. Failures Explained — NYTimes.com

How­ever, busi­ness schools seem to cre­ate an envi­ron­ment that rewards not mak­ing happy cus­tomers, not doing the eth­i­cal thing, not doing the thing that pro­tects the envi­ron­ment down the road.

Adblock Plus – Allowing acceptable ads in Adblock Plus

I’m all onboard with this, in fact I’ve even writ­ten my own Adblock Plus fil­ter to enable ads that I want to see.

The Speaker – Dustin Curtis

Dustin Cur­tis on what at first seems like a bad design deci­sion by Apple until expe­ri­enc­ing the “normal&quot design.