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So close…
We’re just about to go to press. The book will be hitting the shelves September 21, but it’s already available to order on Amazon.com, Barnes & Nobel and Waterstones. It’s full of useful stories...
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The mom test (SXSW edition)
Have you ever been in a meeting where someone was talking about designing for a naive, foolish user? Chances are they began with the words: ‘My mom always…’ I’ve often wished I could meet those moms...
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How do you make simplicity more… simple?
If you’re writing a book with ‘simple’ in the title, you owe it to your audience to eliminate complexity. For the past year, that has been my problem: how to write a book about design and technology...
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Beware of ‘added value’ features
Thanks to the ‘value add’ on my SanDisk USB memory stick I’ve become a hater of their products. The product managers at SanDisk decided that memory sticks were boring and that they needed to make them...
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Come to UX London
UX London is one of the highlights of my calendar as it always draws such an amazing line up of stars and thinkers from the world of user experience and design. So I was flattered, delighted and...
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Weird remotes
Here are a few of the strangest remote control ideas I’ve come across over the past few months. Cushion remote? I don’t quite understand Brookstone’s thinking on the cushion remote. I guess it goes...
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This week I had a call from Timothy Keirnan, presenter of the long-running Design Critique UX podcast. He’d been reading Simple and Usable and wanted to discuss the book on the upcoming edition. Here’s...
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How to remove the faux leather in iCal for OS X Lion
Among the many changes to iCal in Apple’s OS X 10.7 Lion is a rather horrible leather effect. Sometimes dressing up software in this way is useful – it makes it approachable, fun or easier to...
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Webinar – is this thing on?
My publisher has been sending me boxes of interesting goodies recently – acoustic foam, fancy headphones (sorry ‘studio monitors’), an anglepoise stand and a very impressive microphone. All this is to...
View ArticleThe lost art of efficiency in web design
A few years ago I was interviewing a woman about a travel website that she loved. She explained how it had made her life better. ‘When I’m planning to fly, I block out my evenings for the week and I...
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