Jared Spool of User Interface Engineering published a fascinating article way back in 2003 about the death of the major site relaunch: [T]he best sites have replaced this process of revolution with a new process of subtle evolution. Entire redesig...
Time just published their list of the 50 coolest websites of 2006. Not surprisingly, they highlight a number of sites that fall under the banner of Web 2.0, such as Farecast (my new favorite site), Zillow, Meebo, YouTube, and Pandora (even though ...
Every year or so, I check into the latest recommendations on website sizing and screen resolutions. Surprisingly, about 17% of web users still browse at 800x600px, which may sound like a small number, but remember that there are 200,000,000 Intern...
Eric Sink, blogger extraordinaire and founder of SourceGear, experimented with Windows Presentation Foundation (formerly known as Avalon) last month, with great success. He built an application that enumerates woodworking steps along with little 3...
Back in Winter 2004/2005, I spent an entire month cleaning up an RC file that defined over 100 dialogs used in Visual Studio. I scoured our codebase to determine whether the dialog was still in use, removed it if it wasn’t, ensured that the UI met...
Yo, I’ll be back in Minneapolis for a week next month. I haven’t finalized the details yet, but it looks like the dates will be from Sunday, September 10 - Sunday, September 17. I am coming back for a Microsoft recruiting event at the U of MN. Hit...
Almost on a whim earlier tonight, I decided to rebuild my personal website from scratch. I backed up all of my content from Movable Type, installed a brand-new, spiffy copy of MT 3.31 onto my site’s root and a new database, and let ‘er rip. A few ...
(yeah ok, I haven’t quite figured out what innovation means to me yet. I’m still thinking about it.) Jensen Harris had an interesting post on his blog yesterday about what it took in Office 2003 to maintain the color schemes presented on Windows ...
Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror has a great writeup today on Fitts’s Law, which can help you conceptualize the amount of time needed to interact with a user interface (which doesn’t need to be the user interface of a computer; it applies just about e...
In some circles, it’s taken as a basic truth that certain companies have more innovativeness in their pinkies than other companies can muster among all of their 70,000 employees. I am firmly of the belief that this narrow perspective is flawed, at...