NetVibes has some very serious user experience problems, ones that I would hazard to guess they’re unlikely to fix. The solutions would undoubtedly domino into major changes and cannibalize other “features”, so I’m not going to presume to suggest solutions here. So why rant if I know it won’t result in improved future versions of […]

Episode four
Personal Services (Chin Warmer)
Mr Ventham goes to see his advisor with the dreadful problem that his chin is a bit hot. He is advised to lick his chin and stand on a tall building on a windy day until the order of a tie-mounted “chin cooling sachet” is delivered.

Someone asked why Chris posts screenshots. While his thoughtful explanation makes sense, it can be stated simpler: Skitch & MySkitch.com are the Speed Graphic & AP Newsire of the software revolution. By bringing instant PROOF to user experience through shareable screenshots, Skitch accelerates design, development, and debugging by letting anyone “see what I see”. It’s […]

Innovation : Lessons from Apple.
thanks to barry for the pointer

wiki formatting an OS-level option in all text-fields
replace folders with tagging and views, so that filing and folders become unneccessary and the “shelf problem” (one book can only reside on one shelf) is re-solved without asking users to manually create aliases to files in different places. ala GMail
roll Growl into the OS

What up with the grossly oversharpened faux-screen images on Apple’s new Macbook Pro marketing page? Just sayin.