Is email on the iPhone a good idea (for me)?
16 November 2011
Responding to email on my iPhone mostly sucks, compared to the Blackberry I had previously. However, I'm not sure even a Blackberry could save me now. My role at Groupon means that I now get massive quantities of email...
Google Calendar: Your modals suck.
9 September 2011
Seriously, don't you ask your candidates about Fitts' Law during interviews any more? It's not like scheduling recurring meetings is an infrequent event, especially at a business, making this a merely occasional annoyance. This MUST annoy Google employees too. And...
Are you sure you want to leave this page? You suck.
2 September 2011
Dude. Make the options "Save my changes" and "Discard changes". For fark's sake, people. Also, it isn't just Facebook who does this -- I've seen this elsewhere. Probably Outlook. Addendum Wordpress does it too. (I hate Wordpress, but there's something...
Buy.com Social Modal: You Suck.
25 August 2011
I clicked on a shopping result in Google. I expected to go to the product page of the product I had clicked on. I got a lightbox / modal asking me if I want to shop with friends. You must...
OmniGraffle Style Manager: You Suck.
25 August 2011
Normally I tell designers: Don't be derivative. Don't just copy the dominant UI because it happens to be the dominant one. Think the design through from first principles of human cognition, visual design principles, usability heuristics. OmniGraffle. Who are your...
Irony...
29 July 2011
...is a TechCrunch writer "complaining about Google's ugly black toolbar". Google has their secret weapon: the (ugly) black toolbar that resides across all of their properties. If it weren't for that thing, my usage of Google+ would be once a...
Groupon is hiring UX people, all levels, all functions.
19 July 2011
All roles can be in our Palo Alto product / development office or in our Chicago HQ. We're looking for people in all roles who have a strong grounding in design theory, human cognition, and technical knowledge -- the classic...
Apps are just little websites in cheap fur coats.
8 July 2011
While on the London Underground I saw a poster advertising Potiche, a movie starring Catherine Deneuve, who I think is the bees' knees. I made a note to myself to research it when I got back to WiFi. Back on...
New job as Dir of UX at Groupon
2 June 2011
Today seems like an opportune time to announce that tomorrow is my last day working at LinkedIn. On Monday I'll start a new job as Groupon's director of user experience, out of their Palo Alto office. I wasn't at LinkedIn...
Disjoint thoughts on productivity
23 May 2011
Fried goes on to suggest that the perceived distractions of Facebook and web surfing at work are false, with "M&Ms" (managers & meetings) making up greater, involuntary, more disruptive and expensive distractions. -- http://gigaom.com/collaboration/jason-fried-why-work-doesnt-happen-at-work/ Disparate non-narrative thoughts: I've lately been...