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 […]
I’ve recently started turning my pretty-decent and long-missed LP collection into MP3 and FLAC files. Bring on the Tangerine Dream, Berlin-era Bowie and UK! I’d bought a Behringer PP400 MicroPHONO RIAA Phono Preamp to get the signal to a level where my Focusrite Sapphire 14 recording interface would get a good capture. Unfortunately, when I […]
A longish piece. The tl;dr: Unusually, I’ve spent almost no time on Twitter for months, and can’t really say when or if I’ll get back in. Read on for why. At UX Week 2008, I discovered Twitter. Something I’d barely heard about at the time, but never tried. Those around me were holding a rich […]