- Realism in UI Design – "The more realistic something is, the harder it is to figure out the meaning."
- Jan. 19, 1983: Apple Gets Graphic With Lisa – And without the Lisa there wouldn't have been the Mac…
- Googlephone No Match for Kafkaesque Carriers – Steven Levy finds that mobile (cell) carriers are all evil… I wish this was an isolated problem but it seems to happen everywhere. Does anyone actually like their provider?
Tag Archives: usability
My delicious.com bookmarks for January 28th through February 3rd
- Clive Thompson on How More Info Leads to Less Knowledge – "A historian of science at Stanford, Proctor points out that when it comes to many contentious subjects, our usual relationship to information is reversed: Ignorance increases."
- The Palm Pre's possible Achilles heel: battery life – All the glitz you see in the Pre demo and videos may come at a price.
- Tags: Database schemas – Interesting article on how sites like delicious might handle tagging. Yummy until v2.0 uses the "Scuttle" method. Subsequent versions modify this a little for performance reasons.
My delicious.com bookmarks for January 21st through January 22nd
- NetNewsWire and iPhone-Sized Data – "Lesson learned: It’s not enough for an iPhone app to sport an iPhone-optimized user interface. It needs iPhone-sized data, too." I agree with this in principle but I've been thinking how I'd apply it to my iPhone application, Yummy, and coming up with a blank. How can you decide in advance which bookmarks you'll want to see? Most recent? Those with a particular tag? I can't think of an option other than 'all.'
- The Inauguration of President Barack Obama – In case you're not sick of the inauguration already, here are some great images of the day.
- Gordon Brown withdraws plan to keep details of MPs' expenses secret – "The PM said proposals for reforms of MPs' expenses would provide 'more transparency' than in most other parliaments around the world." I'm not convinced that this is a standard we should aspire to. Let's face it, our parliament is more open that North Korea and less tyrannical than Iran's but really that's not much of an achievement.