Posts filed under “Product Design”
Security in UI
One of the most common ways to secure a computer is by using a username/password combination. (In fact, we don’t have to look far to find an example). However, this system is clunky, primarily because it requires you to remember or write down the user name and password for every site (or alternatively use the [...]
Today’s One Paragraph Blog: Frankdensign (the 80-20 rule)
You probably have friends who use the internet. How much would you guess most of them use the buttons on the IE (or Firefox) toolbar? Observation suggests a rule like this: For 80% of the users, only 20% of the buttons gets used (I, for one, never click anything under “Page”). There’s a great book [...]
Today’s Almost One Paragraph Blog: The Stall Point
How do you decide when to throw out your code/idea and sleep on it/do a rewrite? Most people intuitively know when they’ve gotten stuck. Suddenly, after plowing through mountains of work, returns suddenly diminish dramatically. People who program late at night will recognize this phenomena; coding turns from an art to a masturbatory exercise in [...]
Reason iPhone is the best smartphone ever? No one else makes a smart phone.
(changed for readability) Me: I hate windows mobile. Tim: Why? Me: In what universe do you get a smart phone that’s too smart to make calls with? Tim: Yours must be defective, i’ve never had a problem with that. Me: No, it’s not. I’ll explain. Me: My mom got a palm treo 750. Me: This [...]