Senseless waste of asterisks… Avis used an asterisk to denote optional fields. This means that there is a lot of baggage that comes with an asterixk. Somewhere this symbol got meaning, it’s not in the bible! We can control when something goes from unintuitive to intuitive. A design is intuitive (although technically and grammatically speaking [...]

The iPhone changed our industry in 2007: first mobile to have a desktop class web browser and it made people start using their mobile phones as computers! All apps other than apple provided ones were web browser apps. Most of the first apps were branded web browsers. No real difference between using mobile site or [...]

MASS MEDIA (in waves) Print, Recordings, Cinema, Radio, Television, Internet, Mobile Mobile is the new Mass Media It certainly is mass and massive. More mobile devices (by far) every day than babies born on the planet. Mobile devices are eating into our personal computing shares. New waves of mobile media eat all previous media waves. [...]

Mobile and touch should be revolutionizing design and user experience. We don’t want to touch a tiny link or button. Back button is just stupid. Fitz’s Law, make things fat proximal targets for easy touching. People are lazy, let’s as designers LET people be lazy! Maybe even use the whole screen as your control. Eliminate [...]

Grep to for analyze css. CSS duplication is a web-wide problem. Started helping facebook optimize thier site and they had 1.9MB of css loading. The same color showing up hundreds of times. Many many color statements and declarations. !important declarations get dangerous. Sites found to have over 500 !important declarations! float is a serious problem [...]

Cormorant trained to fish for the fishermen. The fishermen tie bands around the birds necks that are. Fishermen fish at night, using lamps they attract bugs, which attract fish, and the cormorant get to fish but cant swallow them and the fishermen take the fish. Browser vendors are promising us new CSS tools, but don’t [...]