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A world without avatars

First, the Paper Clip, now the Happy Mac. Soon we’ll be alone in a virtual world without avatars! […]

don wrote that

from CHI-WEB archives — August 2002, week 3 (#8) “People talk the way they talk. You can’t hold […]

TQS

from Losing (inter)face: Customer experience and its discontents “This comes at a moment when the quality of American […]

type C

I suspect most typographers are cukoo. Behind the Typeface doesn’t prove me wrong. It’s really great– entertaining and […]

the false dichotomy

On the off chance you haven’t read Emotion and Design please go do so now. The Don of […]

signing

I love fonts deeply. But like my wine experiences, I have no memory for names and thus I […]

my type

“Helvetica? That’s that font that looks kinda like Arial, right?”

toes stepping

In Dan’s Brown’s latest Special Deliverable, Where the Wireframes Are, he discussed one of my favorite sticking points: […]

why oh why

Why is Delta Dental Plan of California such a bad site? Other than ugly, badly executed (check out […]

a new minimalism

I was reading through the Design Interact: Ofoto Case Study, and thought, it’s a good looking google. Will […]

getting scenarios right

From a scenario in Modeling Access Control “After some browsing, she tries to use the Search link but […]

chasing ROI

Read Measuring the Value of Usability Engineering and consider the IA community’s latest obsession with ROI. I still […]

Statistics class

Now, god knows I can barely multiply and divide without resorting to toes or a calculator, but even […]

MTIV

Making the Invisible Visible came in the mail today and it’s beautiful. beautiful. more when I’ve read it. […]

Oh Amazon, why so weird?

Today Amazon introduced the soon-to-be standard dancing tab with hairy feet. Yes, another exciting innovation that will spread […]

required reading

If you run usability tests, you need to read Usability Testing: You Get What You Pay For. I’m […]