Posts filed under “Design”
Update on IE7 vs. Firefox Tabs
At Calvin’s recommendation I downloaded and tried out TabMixPlus (a Firefox extension) and it’s awesome. It allows me to configure the tab open behavior to the model that I want which means I’m not going to be opening IE7 as often. how to watch the full film of pineapple express The program has a wealth [...]
Latest in web usability – The 'Adver-menu'
Adver-menus rock! Actually, they are bloody awful. I understand there’s a trend towards turning usability cues into advertising with companies like Google and Amazon joining the fun, but this is ridiculous. The entire fly out menu is covered with a giant ad. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the ‘adver-menu.’ download the departed hd The [...]
I prefer IE7's tab implementation to Firefox's
I know I’m going to hate myself in the morning for saying this, but IE7′s implementation of tabbed browsing has one tiny detail in it that Firefox doesn’t and it’s driving me nuts. The issue is a small one (like most things that influence usability) – when you open a new tab in IE7, it [...]
Google Alerts – Page Flow and Analysis
Google has been innovating like crazy lately and it’s awesome and humbling to see how quickly they increase the depth and breadth of their offerings. One of their products I like a lot is Google Alerts. Essentially, you enter a search you’re interested in using any search operator and you get emailed at a frequency [...]
Stepping Back
If you find yourself solving a problem with one band-aid after another, but each time what you get is not quite what you expected, odds are you need to step back and re-think your approach. There’s something fundamental that’s not quite lining up. It’s also all too easy to become tied to the strategy that [...]
Cool Feature on Linked In – “Take Action” menu item
This isn’t new but I recently realized how cool this is. If you get an invitation to connect on LinkedIn, they display it on your home screen. In the past, you had to click on the invite to go to a page where you could act on it. Recently however, they started providing a “Take [...]
User Experience – It's the little things that annoy you
My home page is a personalized Google page, and overall, I love it. There’s one instance though when it always irritates me just a little bit and that’s when I’m adding new RSS content. The initial flow is fine. You select ‘Add Content’ and then select ‘Add by URL’ at which point you are presented [...]