usability

New York Times Reference Search

As a user experience professional, I appreciate good design and today I was pleasantly surprised by a new feature of the online version of The

Fruit Tree Pruning

We have seven fruit trees in our backyard that we planted a few years ago. Since we got them when they were fairly small they

Lazy Programmers

Even though I am on my work sabbatical, I still find it hard for the user experience guy in me to ignore bad design. I’ve

iMac for the Folks

My parents finally got tired of hearing all this great stuff about email and the “Internet” so they finally decided to buy a computer. As

Stop bugging me!

Virus Advisories should not pop-up from the system tray when the user already has the latest virus definition files that would take care of the

Creative Muvo TX FM

I just purchased a Creative Muvo TX FM mp3 player to replace the iRiver 180T I sold a while ago. The iRiver was a good

Adobe’s Colorless Palettes

Currently, in all Adobe products I’ve used (Photoshop CS, Illustrator 10, Elements 3.0) the tool palettes are black and white *until* the mouse pointer is

eBay Bad Experience #2

Well, this is the second bad experience I’ve had on eBay, but the first one was due to an incompetent seller so that’s not eBay’s