This last weekend I was running around Boston searching for a diamond. The 2007 E.B. Horn Diamond hunt sent 200 teams running through the streets of boston on an adventure fit for Dan Brown. E...

Today is World Usability Day so take a minute and think about how the products and services around you could be more usable and friendly. Think about the frustrations you experience and the fr...

Emily was born November 2nd 2007 making me a proud father. She will undoubtedly change my perception of the world and everything in it. We tend to view the world through our own eyes and with...

The content of the Wikipedia is amazing. What's more amazing is that this content was created despite many obvious flaws in the design of the site.  Here are the main ones I've seen. There ar...

I left my wallet at home today but I remembered my phone. That got me thinking. Why can't my phone be my wallet? I have too much crap in my wallet. Credit cards, shopping cards, health cards, ...

If you decide to use a message box use the appropriate buttons and use the appropriate text. The text in this dialog is strange enough without the extra language backflips that the developer ...

Computational photography is the idea that you can compose an image in a computer, not within the camera.  Traditionally you take a picture and the image is composed on the film at the back of...

UPDATE: We have a new and improved tip calculator. Get details and download the best iPhone tip calculator available. Last night I coded up a simple tip-calculator for the iphone using the '...

On Wednesday Jared Spool spoke at UPABoston about the web today, its history and perhaps its future. One of the more interesting parts was how usability plays into products. In the past the ...

I've been to hundreds of meetings, some good, some awful and I've come to realize that the majority of people don't know how to  meet. Here's some guidelines Tyler Durden style. The first ru...