Software design

Estimated date of birth — an interaction design pattern


9 September 2008

How to avoid asking people for their date of birth when you don’t need it but still gain enough data to be able to produce meaningful age segmentations.

Hack your world


16 August 2008

On the web, in the streets and even in the municipal flowerbeds, people are taking design into their own hands.

Too much information


21 November 2007

You’d have to get up pretty early in the morning to put one over the system management software that comes with the Acer Aspire 9300.
A jack has been plugged in!
A jack has been unplugged!
Do you think I don’t realise already? Who’s the one doing the plugging and unplugging?
An important usability principle is to conserve the [...]