September 2011
4 posts
My Oven Gets Me Every Time
The oven in our house was terrible. Awful. So we bought a new one - a Kenmore Dual-Fuel. We love it.
But there’s one thing that still trips me up about the control panel to this very day, 3 years later: setting the timer.
This is the panel just to the right of the LCD. In order to set the timer, here’s what I usually do.
Press SET in the Timer area.
Enter a time using the...
A Couple of Thoughts on UX + UI Stories in Agile
My opinion is that UI and UX stories are the wrong vehicles for conveying the activities of user experience folks. Here’s why.
My interpretation of stories is that they should demonstrate value to end users or, as I like to call them, people. They might get divided into segments and different customers but, whatever. UX and UI stories I’ve encountered look something like this:
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It's 2011, and I will judge your business by your...
If your website has “default footer text” in the footer, that says to me that you don’t take everything seriously.
If your website has your hours and directions in Flash, that says to me that you aren’t interested in ensuring your information is visible to all devices.
If your website is sloppy or unorganized, that says to me that your site is a secondary or tertiary...
Windows 8: Inconsistency is a Feature
You have probably seen this floating about the web.
That’s been featured in a lovely piece from Microsoft’s Steven Sinofsky, writing about some major design decisions around the new Explorer in Windows 8. It’s the new ribbon in Explorer’s default window view.
There’s a lot of good stuff in Sinofsky’s article. I truly appreciate and geek out a bit over the...