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While funny, this would actually be pretty useful. Especially at book and electronics stores. toothpastefordinner.com

Recently, Jared Spool and Robert Hoekman, Jr. addressed the question of making a career move from developer to designer on their Userability podcast. I listened to it with great interest, having made this move myself not too long ago. Jared and Robert had some great advice, like to just start observing how people use your [...]

“If we say your package will arrive on December 2nd, then it will arrive on December 2nd – even if we have to ship it back and forth for a couple days.” This seems to be FedEx’s philosophy, anyway… I expect my package to arrive tomorrow at 7pm sharp, even if the driver needs to [...]

Computer: “Warning: out of dark matter!” Leela: “That’s not a warning! A warning is supposed to come before something bad happens.” Computer: “1 second until engine shut down.” Leela: “That’s more like it.” – Bender’s Game – – – – – – – – The Daily WTF

This made me do a double-take. Why would it think this photo had anything to do with the BostonCHI meeting? Well, that’s because it was uploaded while the BostonCHI meeting was going on (and it was in my calendar). I don’t know, doesn’t seem all that intelligent to me. Others disagree, though.

Last week my husband and I visited Greece. It is a truly beautiful country, no matter where you go – and we went just about everywhere (well, as much as we could in 9 days). One thing that immediately struck me about the country, or perhaps more about the people, was the level of personal [...]

Take the time and money and effort you’d put into an expensive logo and put them into creating a product and experience and story that people remember instead. – Seth Godin

When you try to access a page that doesn’t exist on the Nokia website, you get a funny “oops” image: Try it out – there are a couple other images you can get if you refresh. This is a great example of fairy doors that are funny and don’t get in the way of the [...]

I was at an A.C. Moore store today and had an interesting experience at the checkout counter with the elderly clerk. It all began when she condescendingly insisted on calling me “honey” (I’m sure she didn’t mean to be condescending, but I’m not a little girl). I took my purchases out of the basket I [...]

Rhapsody provides a subscription music service so you can listen to anything whenever you want and wherever you are, automatic playlists based on music you like, and “channels” that provide a continuous supply of new music either based on your own preferences or by genre. Your library is synchronized across all computers that you use. [...]