A few years ago, I ran into a situation while working in an enterprise. The Intranet team announced with great fanfare that they’d released a brand new Intranet redesign, with a pretty new look and feel. Sure enough, the Intranet looked shiny-new. However, once a user searched for anything, nearly all the results (all the […]
I’ve been looking for chords or tab to David Baerwald‘s beautiful song “Born for Love” for a year or more. I fooled around with it on the guitar, and found a few of the chords used, but couldn’t make a good arrangement to play it. Yesterday I found a video of David Baerwald playing Born […]
I traveled out of the US recently, and thought I’d try out a Chromebook. I liked the idea that I could wipe it back to bare metal before crossing a border checkpoint. This is not a list of stuff wrong with it that I thought up, but instead, a list of things I either wanted […]
Several years ago, I started seeing troubling pieces come out suggesting that we Move Beyond Jakob Nielsen (I’m paraphrasing here). The implication: that we’d allowed designing for usability to create a failure of imagination. We’d impoverished web design and mobile in the service of a geeky goal we could now forget about now because, after […]