How to Redesign Your App Without Pissing Everybody Off

The era of User Generated Discontent began about a decade ago, when a critical mass of people started using social apps on the web often enough that they felt...

All Dashboards Should be Feeds

Last week, we announced the new beta release of ThinkUp (if you’re a geek or developer, try it out!) and one of the reasons I was most excited to talk about the...

Aesthetic Integrity

An application that appears cluttered or illogical is harder to understand and use. Aesthetic integrity is not a measure of how beautifully your application is...

Not a Moral Obligation, a Social Obligation

Mitch Wagner has a provocative, comprehensive, and entertaining look at the recent conversations about Apple and the enterprise over at InformationWeek entitled...

100 Perfect Pixels: Vox Neighborhood

This is the third post in a series where I’m pointing out some nice little touches that take up less than a 100×100 pixel square on a screen. Today’s is from...

The Windows Apps You Never Need To Install

One of the interesting things about being a serious Windows user is that very little attention is paid to efficient users of Windows, and that we suffer from...

Web Development Trends for 2006

Curious about what technologies and techniques are going to be popular in the coming months and into the next year? Well, our crack team of editors here at...

Be an average user

Many of my friends are technological know-it-alls, and we all tend to ignore default settings and not do the things that software recommends. Part of this is...

review of the Elements, and updates

New in Magazine , a review of The Elements of User Experience , JJG’s new book . Yes, he’s a friend. Yes, I (mostly) praise the book. That’s because it’s good....

iframe RPC

You should all know that Eric is a goddamned genius. His remote scripting system using javascript and iframes is just brilliant and, frankly, I resent him for...

In an interesting divergence from

In an interesting divergence from the "the logo in the upper-left corner takes you to the homepage" convention that has been with the web for years...

Usability is dead, users are

Usability is dead , users are too smart to need it. No, that’s not true . Well, at least on this one Jakob’s right.