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Power Favorites for Twitter Pros

Favorites on the popular twitter service have limited use. After being on the service for over a year I had managed to favorite only a few stories and checking with some others online it seemed tha...

Mobile Ergonomics for those with two thumbs

You can't easily tap every region of the phone with equal ease. Your hand isn't designed for this.  Yes your thumb is opposable but unless it's double jointed there will still be parts of you...

Quick Calendar UI Review - Google

This is a simple UI critique of a simple feature burried in Google Calendar.  Here's the original: It's a relatively simple form.  It's certainly not bad but I think it could be better. Here'...

5 Email Problems not Solved by Google Wave

Google wave is an interesting new technology for communication. In concept it's supposed to fix many of the issues associated with email. While it solved some of the back & forth in tradit...

Free iPhone Designer Icons

Designing icons is hard. Designing quality icons is harder. That's why it's great when a free resource pops up that provides over 100 free icons for your use in iPhone application designs. The...

Interface List Design - Drupal

This is a quick UI critique on a list design pattern that's in a proposed stages for Drupal7. The UI being critiqued is not final, as such the feedback is meant to be helpful to both the Drup...

How NOT to write an NDA

I used to think that a Non-Disclosure-Agreement (NDA) was a useful tool in business. I've now decided it's a wedge that gets in the way of progress and conversations. A typical scenario is bet...

Apple's Secret

Apple is generally great at keeping secrets. They love to break the news and wow the audience. They are amazing at this and control the media experience with precision. The process starts with...

Drupal User Experience

Overhauling the Company Website Over the summer, we overhauled the Raizlabs website. It was originally developed in 2001 using Frontpage (yeah, I know). The site had accumulated a number of HTML f...

Why the Chrome OS Matters

Two years ago I stood at Goolge's mountain view campus in front of about 100 Linux desktop architects. The message I delivered was simple. Linux would never take off in it's current form. A n...