Apple: Tabbed Inspectors Suck; Adobe and Omni get it right.
29 February 2012
Could you PLEASE redesign your OS conventions for big screens? Or at least afford some expert accelerators for people with big monitors? This drives me nuts whenever I use Keynote. Most...
Miss Manners on Interaction Design*
21 February 2012
"People who are deluged with information on a subject in which they have limited interest (apologies to the couple, but such is life) do not become increasingly informed. Quite the...
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...
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...
Yes, I DO often want to see my email and calendar at the same time
27 January 2011
Convo in team chatroom: Ellen Beldner: Is there any way in Outlook 2011 for me to simultaneously view both my calendar and email? like, the way I'd be able to...
...but Outlook, I don't see a SAVE button.
24 January 2011
Jakob says (http://www.useit.com/alertbox/action-object-closeness.html): One of the oldest principles of human-computer interaction is that things that are close together on the screen are seen as related. (Similarly, users view as...
UI shit like this drives me *batty*: I hate Outlook
24 January 2011
A snippet of a chat I had today with a coworker:Monday, January 24, 2011 11:56 Ellen Beldner: outlook is a bitch so i'm just going ot communicate with you via...
Pandora: iPad HCI fail
28 December 2010
"Oooh! Pandora for my iPad, cool! I've been getting into Pandora lately, bought a premium subscription, using it a lot more & becoming a fan...." Download & install -- fairly...
Thoughts on Interface Consistency
13 December 2010
We had a big discussion today at work about consistency. When do you force it? When do you challenge it? On one hand, I understand the point made by a...
My Design Principles
18 November 2010
This list is based on the original Google design team's UI principles, which I helped draft in 2004-ish. Google updated its UI principles and published them around 2008, when Irene...
Happy Diwali from LinkedIn!
5 November 2010
Had my first launch at LinkedIn yesterday. It's a custom homepage, visible in India, that wishes viewers a happy Diwali from different LinkedIn employees. Happy Diwali LinkedIn blog post. We...
Collaboration and Crowdsourcing
6 February 2010
The system is what the user makes of it -- the system is what the user brings to it. That's the essence of social sites, compared to crowdsourced sites. Crowdsourcing...
In search of books on mobile usability & UI...
27 January 2010
Recalling CMU intro HCI course whose capstone project was UI improvements for the PalmOS.... Here's the question on Quora, but haven't yet gotten much of a response: http://www.quora.com/q/What_are_the_best_fresh_up_to_date_academic_type_resources_for_mobile_UI_UX_design...
Out of control outgoing links
9 April 2009
Okay, I already knew that I hate and detest the new-ish Facebook practice in which you don't just navigate to outgoing links; you get taken to a Facebook page with...
Project description: GreenBetween.com
21 June 2007
GreenBetween is a site that allows people to buy carbon offsets. A friend of mine was starting the site and asked me if I'd design some website badges ("I purchased...
Google Base Store Connector
5 October 2006
The other day we launched the Google Base Store Connector. The progression to the final version was pretty neat. When I started working on the project there was a functional...
Google Base digital content uploader
14 August 2006
I already wrote the blog post on the official blog. But this is one of the more successful design-to-implementation experiences I've had on Base....