I few months ago I was contacted by the folks at Firefox to do some visual explorations for Firefox 2.0. Although we where only officially doing visual explorations we did take some extra time...

Prime numbers hold the key to the bulk of today's encryption technologies. The reason is because it's easy to multiply two numbers together but it's hard to figure out what those numbers where...

Common design wisdom says that similar looking things should behave in similar ways. Yet every kitchen you walk into is designed with dozens of cabinets in every imaginable configuration. Ever...

Take one world-class brand: Coca-Cola. Now imagine a truly awful website. This is probably one of the worst sites for a global brand that I've ever seen. Here's a quick breakdown: Don't ch...

Uncommon controls I received an email a few weeks ago from Sergio asking me about filter controls. I didn't get the light bulb of the idea until t...

Anyone who has seen or played with Flock may tend to believe that the future of web browsers is in service integration. While this will certainly happen to some extent I believe the larger int...

A few months ago I posted about Ie7 beta 2. Yesterday beta 3 came out and I took it for a whirl. Overall it has some improvements (most of these seem to be following in the steps of Firefox.) ...

Google is the darling of search. I have tried or currently use most of Google's products. I would even say that I like most of the services but overall the user experience is sometimes confuse...

I recently watched an interesting piece by Jared Spool on branding and how branding can influence and impact the user experience. The basic overview is good and fascinating to watch but I thin...

I was recently using Office 2007 and in general the contextual spell-checker is great and has found more than a few errors. However if it gets it wrong the consequences can be bad. I saw this ...