Category: Misc

  • Sony makes it hard so you stay busy

    Sony’s CEO has given us a new candidate for the worst.quote.ever. from a usability point of view: “We don’t provide the ‘easy to program for’ console that (developers) want, because ‘easy to program for’ means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so then the question…

  • How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet

    Just ran into this essay (again) from Douglas Adams (late author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy) and had to share it. Great quotes about interactivity: …but the reason we suddenly need such a word [“Interactivity”] is that during this century we have for the first time been dominated by non-interactive forms of entertainment:…

  • Signs of Change

    Ok–there’s my goofball title for a news item that made the rounds at work today. The New York Times reports on the hows and whys of the process of changing the nation’s highway signage. Interesting article with a focus on design, usability, ergonomics etc. Best place to start for visual people like myself is the…

  • Sexy Router?

    Belkin is making a bet that a sleek design will help sell wireless routers. I’m a sucker for well designed toys so I’ll have to check this one out. The website for the N1 Vision is here. (thanks to notcot.com)

  • She said *what*?

    So today I was on two different email threads where the subject of the thread mysteriously changed mid-thread. The first one was innocuous enough–“forum” was misspelled as “foum” got changed to “foam”. Odd that it changed but nothing more than a raised eyebrow warranted there. The second one, however, went from talking about WPF UI’s…

  • What’s that yellow thing in the sky?

    There’s a reason that all the trees in Seattle are green…