Posts filed under “Product Design”
The method never justifies the product.
What do these posts have in common?: If you get it wrong, the voice comes on the line to tell you. Hey, since you know what I did wrong and you know what I meant to do, why not just fix it? If I dial a number and forget the “1″, just insert the 1 [...]
Perl oddities
Since Gas is writing about UI, I’ll do programming for now: Today’s example is about Perl, and a curious example about hashtables. A hashtable, as you may know, maps a key to a value. %names = (“smith” => “john”, “krall” => “diana”); foreach $lastname (keys %names) { print “$lastname, $names{$lastname}n”; } In essence, this hashtable [...]
The GIMP sucks
I recently wrote a program to view my pictures and edit the jpeg metadata. The idea is that it would be a nice interface for browsing pictures and metadata and allow quick changes to the comments field. Vista provides this support (It’s fantastic!) but I’m still running on XP on my main machine. My pictures [...]
UI: Pop-ups are bad, and not just for web pages
Everyone knows that pop-ups used to be the scourge of the Internet. These days, modern versions of most browsers contain “pop-up blocking” built in. They had become prevalent due to their use as high-visibility advertising, resulting in high click-through-rates. But everyone knows that pop-ups are bad, because they’re annoying and hurt usability. Consider why pop-ups are bad: [...]