Category / Experience Design
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Ain’t She Purty?
One mis-selection in my Numbers spreadsheet and chart click later and I got this: oopsie!
April 1, 2008 -
Less Transparent Changes
Despite Steve Jobs’ sell job at Macworld on Leopard’s “cool” transparent menu bar, the people’s voices have been heard. Today’s update to OS X includes the following two changes: Desktop Addresses legibility…
February 11, 2008 -
Weird Help Viewer Navigation
According to the Help Viewer application’s documentation, “To see a previous help topic, click the Back button. To return, click the Forward button.” There’s no mention of using what I’ve found. The…
November 20, 2007 -
Extra Extra!
Leopard’s Safari RSS functionality is a little on the obsessive side. Or should I say, nagging side. Even though I’ve selected this one RSS feed several times in a row, the menu…
November 2, 2007 -
DRAG THIS!
Leopard is coming and Apple has done a nice job adding the new QuickLook functionality in the Finder. Now you can drag any item that is showing in the CoverFlow view to…
October 20, 2007 -
Et Tu, Verdana?
Why the heck do product designers totally fink out when it comes to fonts on a device? Case in point, this newly announced HTC Polaris. It’s super charged with all sorts of…
October 19, 2007 -
Pixelmator First Impressions
I don’t have the time to write a full review of this new app but I thought I’d share my initial impressions. I didn’t reposition the windows in this post. I just…
October 5, 2007 -
iPhoto Detail
Wouldn’t it be nice if when you were setting up a Smart Album in iPhoto ’06 that you could simply say: [Date] [is the month of] [January] [2007] Instead of: [Date] [is…
September 25, 2007 -
Shift Command R(etired)
Apple just posted a technical document that states it’s no longer necessary to hold Shift-Command-R to bypass the cache when attempting to reload a page in Safari. It already bypasses the cache…
August 16, 2007 -
Latin to Clipboard
I was just sitting here looking for some Latin to use in a design and had an idea. There’s no need for me to visit some website or locate a stray file…
July 11, 2007