| More sites launched!02.09.2006 |
| My 11-year old son registered FilmSpree.com. Garrison is just blogging his short digital films. I started the experimental BuzzSpree.com. I'm playing with in automating content through web services. I may add a blog to that someday. |
| Another site launched!11.05.2003 |
| With the success of HomeSchoolBuzz, I have started another new site concentrating on book price comparison. BookSpree.com has far more books linked and you can search for many more. |
| What I'm up to now12.09.2002 |
| You might notice I haven't added anything to this site in a while. I've been very busy with life and work. Now I am putting any free-time effort into my new site HomeSchoolBuzz.com. Please check it out if you can. This site is actually being updated almost daily and probably will be for some time. |
| I haven't exactly abandoned this site but it will someday evolve into mostly a protfolio of my work; not a weblog.
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| Get a
lawyer First 07.23.2001 |
| I thought the
newly re-designed Hotmail would be worth a look
since I once maintained an address there. (I
stopped using it when it got over-spammed.) The
UI is nicer looking but not at all innovative and
in fact badly designed from a user-centered
perspective. The only thing that really impressed
me was the lawyers behind this project. |
| After re-activating
my account, I was greeted with a 8076 word, 1086
line legal agreement which I was required to
accept in order to use the service. How can any
human read and comprehend all that double-speak?
This is a serious usability
issue if you think about it. |
| This has always
worried me. I always fear that there is some
hidden clause in the contract that allows
Microsoft to be given keys to my house or
unlimited use of my library card. This is really
gettng out of hand. Why do we put up with this,
especially for the software we actually pay for? |
| A pithy
designer 07.19.2001 |
| ...and I mean
that in
the nicest way. (I had to look that up first
before I posted it, just to be sure.) |
| Mel posted an
excerpt from me on her insightful design weblog brushstroke.tv. |
| A
Righteous Manifesto 07.19.2001 |
| Apple has released a draft of
the OSX Aqua Human Interface Guidelines. Even
after all these years I can't get over how true
and "righteous" the original
principles
(reprinted in the Aqua guide) still are. I dare
say that if you know nothing else about UI design
but these things, you will be an excellent UI
designer. |
| Although you may
be designing for windows, web or proprietary
local UI, the principles contained in part one
still apply (and are plagiarized in the windows
guidelines). |
- Metaphors
- Modelessness
- User Control
- Direct
Manipulation
- See-and-Point
- Consistency
- Feedback and
Dialog
- WYSIWYG (What
You See Is What You Get) Forgiveness
- Perceived
Stability
- Aesthetic
Integrity
- Additional
Considerations
- Knowledge
of Your Audience
- Worldwide
Compatibility
- Universal
Accessibility
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