I hear that hard drive spinning up The fans are spinning up too. Come on, it's lovely weather To install an update or two. I hear your family asking And friends are asking you too. Come on, an...

I've started reading spam. It's not glamorous but there sure is a lot of it to read. When you start reading spam you quickly see some pattern. 98.9% of spam comes from people you don't know. ...

How much do we really see? I came across an interesting video that asks us, how much do we really see? We all think we're good observers and can w...

When you buy a DVD you expect that your DVD will play in every DVD player. Well it turns out that the some DVD's aren't normal. In fact it's questionable if they can even be called DVD's. I ha...

Dear Computer, Enough with the pop-ups, the alerts, the toast notifications, the email dings, the buzzers, the bells the RSS notifications and messages. You do nothing but nag me all day. I'm ...

I've been using my Mac for a week now and I have to say that Firefox for OS X is simply not as good as it is for Windows. Load performance is slower. I'm using a faster computer then before ...

Many web designs have too much unorganized stuff on the screen. Much of this stuff is usually useful in some way but it's unorganized and leads to a confusing page flow. When you read a book y...

I recently purchased one of the new MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo laptops. The laptop is well engineered and offers a great way for an interface designer to explore multiple operating systems with a ...

Recently the voting machines down in Florida seemed to be causing some problems. Last year I had the opportunity as part of World Usability Day to play around with two of these DieBold voting ...

I've always enjoyed playing with consumer electronic devices but I've yet to design an interface for one. I worked on a touch-screen system for the New York Stock Exchange but never a consumer...