visual design & credibility
14 May 2013
"An organization of real human beings who are trying to address genuinely complex issues ought not generate a webpage as smooth and featureless as a bowlful of Maalox." http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/005850.html this...
Expensify's marketing reminds me of YUCK, not WIN.
5 March 2013
Expensify is pretty good software. At a previous job I tried getting our accounting department to use it, but apparently they preferred to make me print out their sadistic and...
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...
The rhetoric of pink
28 March 2011
Context: One of the designers I work with was working on some promotional skins for 3rd party LinkedIn widgets. The LI brand identity often strikes me as being aggressively masculine...
LinkedIn Today: Congrats to LI UED members...
10 March 2011
LinkedIn just launched LinkedIn Today, its social news aggregator for professionals. Props to the members of the LI UED team who have been hammering away at this for the past...
...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...
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...
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...
Dan Cederholm likes Halvorsen too
13 July 2007
Halvorsen is the typeface I recently used for my GreenBetween redesign. Turns out that Dan likes it too. I don't really know Dan, although I hired him via Google to...
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...
New dashboard -- Google Base bulk uploads
8 November 2006
Woohoo -- new design for the Google Base bulk upload dashboard! The old bulk upload dashboard was a 3-second one-off using our generic tabular data widget. Since most of...
Redesign of the Google Base homepage
19 September 2006
Less suck, more hot. We did a ton of usability testing of Base in the past few months, and this revised homepage came out of it. Goals were to...
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....
Pironimo.net
25 March 2006
Pironimo.net is a twiki installation that I deployed, customized, and maintain for a small community of friends (around 30 people). It began on another server in September 2002. Since then...