Archives

2012

• Design Principles for Metaprogramming – Dec 19

• Goodbye WordPress – Jan 29

2011

• Google I/O: Memory Management for Android Apps – May 16

• Smarter Notifications with Locale for Android – Mar 18

• Making Notifications Better – Mar 8

• So You Want to Install a Python Package – Jan 6

2010

• Browser Bits: My mini-blog on browser UX – Apr 21

• My CHI2010 Talk: A Study of Tabbed Browsing – Apr 20

• Presenting at CHI 2010 – Apr 9

• An In-Depth Look at the User Experience of iPhone Safari – Jan 29

2009

• Thesis Update and Multi-Touch BumpTop – Oct 1

• Aaand...we're back. – Jul 20

• How many tabs do people use? (Now with real data!) – Apr 13

• 301 Redirect for the search usability win! – Mar 20

• Hire me for programming or interaction work – Mar 11

• Are short methods actually worse? – Mar 9

• tlogger: Capture click-stream web browsing logs – Feb 13

• My Tab Study: Apropos Links – Feb 5

• My Talk at Mozilla – Jan 29

• Sketchbook: Using Ubiquity with a mouse – Jan 15

2008

• Could visualization help make better software? – Dec 18

• Sketchbook: Firefox session restore – Dec 5

• Links: Windows 7, visualizing complexity, Cruz – Oct 30

• Removing debris from your interface – Oct 21

• Google Chrome: Usability Impressions – Sep 2

• Blogging is the hardest "conversation" I've ever had – Aug 26

• Wrestling with Tabs – Aug 25

• Actually, this IS your father's text editor – Jul 9

• The future of tabbed browsing – Jun 25

• Things to check out – May 27

• One fine day at meshU – May 21

• Sugar leaves the One Laptop per Child nest – May 16

• This is my brain on Twitter – May 7

• If this is Object Calisthenics, I think I'll stay on the couch – May 6

• Firefox's awesomebar: a command-line for web apps – Apr 23

• What I've been up to: freehand drawing on the OLPC laptop – Apr 17

• On wiki markup languages – Apr 11

• The *real* reason you want a multiple monitor setup – Mar 28

• Spring Fever: Links for March 14, 2008 – Mar 14

• If you can't say anything nice... – Mar 11

• Design Transformations – Mar 3

• A Hierarchy of Needs for Code – Feb 28

• Scribd's iPaper and the fragile web – Feb 22

• Why desktop search will give way to personal information search – Feb 7

• Designed for the Canadian Winter – Jan 28

• Multiple-Monitor Productivity: Fact or Fiction? – Jan 25

• What interaction programming is, and why it matters – Jan 18

• Links for January 15th – Jan 15

• The innovative interface of the OLPC laptop – Jan 10

• 5 ways to radically change computers (for the better) – Jan 1

2007

• Links for December 4th – Dec 4

• Design *for* our brains, not *like* our brains – Nov 29

• More downloading difficulties – Nov 23

• Firefox 3 Beta 1: Usability impressions – Nov 20

• Usability problems downloading from web apps – Nov 7

• Firefox 3 Awesomeness – Nov 6

• Mozilla Prism and the future of application development – Oct 26

• There are no little boxes: Everything is deeply intertwingled – Oct 23

• Information Revolution – Oct 22

• Greatest Misses: Popular posts from the last year – Oct 15

• Happy birthday to me – Oct 12

• Software needs editors – Oct 10

• Ontario election: Safari users out of luck – Oct 10

• Two outta three ain't bad – Oct 9

• Jono DiCarlo's Top 3 Humane Open-source Applications – Oct 6

• Mundane usability problems – Oct 4

• White night, dark station – Oct 3

• Wacom's wacky new logo – Oct 2

• Graphics for summarizing customer reviews – Oct 1

• Uploading and downloading are seams in the web experience – Sep 28

• Usability mistakes with radio buttons – Sep 26

• Inspiration for HCI and usability practitioners – Sep 24

• Making up my mind about oversimplification – Sep 21

• As simple as possible, and then some – Sep 20

• Weirdness when minimizing Finder – Sep 13

• Revenge of the Nerds: Cool interfaces for electronic music – Sep 11

• Network issues – Sep 10

• Rethinking overlapping windows – Sep 7

• Erlang and the future of programming – Sep 1

• Oversimplification is confusing (or, Don't ask stupid questions) – Aug 30

• Avoiding the mailto: trap – Aug 29

• Data visualization roundup – Aug 23

• Yay for rectangular selection! (But just this once) – Aug 21

• Sometimes it's okay to be sucky – Aug 20

• Why is installing software on a Mac so complicated? – Aug 16

• Fun with clickwrap licenses – Aug 8

• On Quality Code: Less is More – Aug 3

• Do you use spatial organization? – Jul 31

• Python: Making easy things easy – Jul 31

• Icons by Picasso – Jul 7

• Sub-pixel font rendering: it ain't just about the looks – Jun 12

• Donald Norman on the design of intelligent machines – Jun 11

• Answers Are Easy, Questions Are Hard – Jun 6

• Why I'm Not Doing a Paper Prototype – Jun 5

• Multi-touch in the home – May 30

• Personal Information Beyond the Desktop – May 18

• Constipated Metaphors – May 15

• Google is not enough – May 10

• The dark side of tabbed browsing – Apr 6

• Riding the Rocket – Apr 4

• Doing Today's Job with Yesterday's Tools – Feb 27

• Warming up to OpenID – Feb 26

• What happens to our information when we die? – Feb 22

• Blake Ross takes on information management – Feb 20

• Users don't know what they want – Feb 13

• The past and future of the WIMP interfaces – Feb 12

• Yahoo! Pipes: Plumbing for the semantic web – Feb 8

• Back to the Future Part II – Feb 7

• Personal Information Management: A change is gonna come – Feb 7

• University of Calgary Interactions Lab – Jan 29

• Silos and Architecture Astronauts – Jan 22

• Enso: Back to the future – Jan 16

• iPhone is the acid test for convergence – Jan 10

• On static and dynamic typing, and corn tortillas – Jan 8

• 24 Hours in NYC, Part 2: MoMA Design Collection – Jan 5

2006

• 24 Hours in NYC, Part 1: ITP Winter Show 2006 – Dec 21

• Hitting the sweet spot – Dec 12

• Why can't my RSS play with your email? – Dec 8

• Why I Miss Static Typing – Dec 1

• The Unbearable Weight of Choice – Nov 24

• Useful Awkwardness – Oct 12