I like new technology. I like Amazon.com. I hate the Kindle. Actually, I love the Kindle, but I hate what Amazon has done with the business model around it.
If you need, for example, Sparknotes for Hamlet right now, you can get it through Barnes & Noble’s new e-book offering, but you’ll fail tomorrow’s English [...]
This is a re-issue of an article that I wrote a few years ago… while it may be disconnected from what I usually write about, I have recently been hearing from many designers about the bad advice that they have received from consultants, especially IT consultants, so I thought it was worth the post. [...]
There is a less structured, curiosity-driven, paradigm which focuses not on what is absolutely right or wrong, but instead on what is surprising. A problem with rights and wrongs is that, for some people, the pressure of being correct gets in the way of experiencing what actually is.
- Mind Hacks Blog
Those of you in the [...]
There are several solutions that could improve the experience of taking a transit card out of a wallet, swiping it, and passing through a turnstile. Here are some of my initial thoughts; of course, more research and testing is required to come to the best solution.
Exterior pocket outside billfold
This allows frequently used cards to [...]
If you read my last post, you might have said, “what’s the big deal — can’t people just deal with it?” The answer is yes, of course they can… but there is a cost to the individual, to other people, and to the wider systems in which they participate. The mismatch between [...]
I was recently shopping for a new wallet and discovered that most of them are poorly designed for today’s lifestyle. A quick internet search shows that wallets today are pretty much the same as they were 100 years ago, even though our lifestyles have changed dramatically over the last century. In this short [...]
They have done it again. RIM has managed to design an even worse phone than the Blackberry Pearl. The new Blackberry Storm proves that bad design and execution ruins a phone more than an extensive feature list helps it. Much has been written about this, but I think that David Pogue puts it best in [...]
What’s wrong with this picture?
I was recently traveling in Washington, DC and was struck by their pedestrian signs. There is a major design flaw here. Why make the numbers red when red means stop? Let me explain further…
Of course, it is obvious from the photos which means stop and which means go. The problem is, [...]
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