Archives

2024

Memories of some fantastic internships – Jul 31
Playing like a kid again – Jun 30
Taking learning seriously – May 30
Bytecode VMs in surprising places – Apr 30
Two little interpreters – Mar 26
Casual programming – Feb 12
Thoughts on Scratch – Jan 22

2023

Cold-blooded software – Dec 28

2022

The influence of Self – Nov 1
Core dumps, feedback loops, and a game of telephone – Apr 28
Getting things done (in small increments) – Mar 21
Handling user input with structured concurrency – Feb 15
Three ways of handling user input – Jan 5

2021

Ohm v16 – Oct 4
Visualizing Packrat Parsing – Jan 10

2020

Sketches from CDG – May 2

2017

Reading – Spring 2017 – Apr 23
Task-Transforming Representations – Mar 20

2016

What is State? – Dec 9
The interesting thing about React – Sep 1
What I've been up to at CDG – May 5
Things I Read and Enjoyed in 2015 – Jan 5

2014

Sketch Alignment Guides – Dec 8

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