A project management tool written using Rails.
Toxic IM
Monday, December 29th, 2003 at 8:27 am
Jakob Nielsen posits that Instant Messaging destroys productivity and is not an answer to the very real problem of information pollution.
It is naïve to believe that IM is the answer to the information overload that’s ailing e-mail. Continue current trends a few years and most people will get so much IM that they will have [...]
Dasher: ZIP for Text Entry
Saturday, August 24th, 2002 at 12:19 pm
The Dasher Project uses the metaphors gleaned from ZIPs (Zooming Interface Paradigm) about infinite desktops to create a highly efficient, usable, albeit unconventional text-entry system. Very cool. It uses one of the most beneficial, yet seldom applied, UI principle: Fitts’ Law.
Apple’s OSX leverages Fitts’ law well in their Aqua Doc, at the bottom [...]
Usability.gov
Monday, April 8th, 2002 at 11:34 pm
New government usability site - via boxes and arrows.
Flash Navigation
Friday, April 27th, 2001 at 10:22 pm
Very cool flash navigation! (can you believe it?). If you’ve read The Humane Interface, Jef Raskin writes about utilizing a ZIP (Zooming Interface Paradigm) for creating the next generation of GUIs not dependent on work that came of Xerox PARC. This flash piece is in the spirit of that idea and I’m impressed by how [...]
Usage Centered vs XP
Tuesday, April 24th, 2001 at 7:31 pm
A good thread on the merits of Usage Centered Design vs. XP. It’s kind of cool when one the list recipients and contributors include Larry Constantine (aka Whitfield Diffie’s twin).
Jon Udell from O’Reilly discusses his feelings on the future of XML after his return from XML DevCon in New York. My favorite quote is his [...]
