First Principles of Interaction Design

“Users should not have to seek out status information. Rather, they should be able to glance at their work environment and be able to gather at least a first approximation of state and workload.”

The Psychology of Navigation

“The most important factor in evaluating the link is its language. First and foremost, users will look for specific words that they would use to describe what they’re looking for. They aren’t mulling over interpretation and connotation. They’re looking for particular words, and finding those particular words will overwhelmingly cause them to click links. If they don’t see their own words, they’ll keep an eye out for words they would expect other people to use. A synonym will do just fine, but it won’t generate the level of interest that an exact match will.”

A Dao of Web Design

“What I sense is a real tension between the web as we know it, and the web as it would be. It’s the tension between an existing medium, the printed page, and its child, the web. And it’s time to really understand the relationship between the parent and the child, and to let the child go its own way in the world.”

orbiTouch Keyless Keyboard

“The orbiTouch is a keyboard that eliminates finger motion and significantly reduces wrist motion—two major causes of typing discomfort and pain.”

The Superest: Who is the superest hero of them all?

RubyURL Bookmarklet – Now with Google Maps Support

“The RubyURL bookmarklet is a god send, want to link somewhere that has a long url? Just click the RubyURL this link button and copy the address, the problem that I had is that it didn’t work with google maps, which have extremely long urls and requires many steps to generate a RubyURL. First you click, “link to this page”, copy the text from the little popup, go to rubyurl.com, paste the text and get your RubyURL.”

Foamee

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