I’ve been working on something for a long time, and finally got around to making it happen. Freshly is a way to find out what farmers’ market is near you, open, now. It’s driven by trying to remember when the markets are open, and where they are on which days. I wanted something that would [...]
Category Archives: Usability
The iPad is not the same as your laptop
November 16, 2011 – 12:33 pm
There was a post this morning by Dave Winer regarding the google results on an iPad. He thinks it’s bad design because Google changes the results layout, optimizing for tablet and providing less content. His thoughts here: Google search on iPad is bad design. While some of the points he makes are valid, I have [...]
Nest | The Learning Thermostat
October 27, 2011 – 10:07 am
Nest | The Learning Thermostat I’m certainly not the only person to talk about Nest this week, so I won’t try to dig too deep into it. I just wanted to note it, and comment on how nice it is to see design coming to the forefront of those hidden pieces of tech. Thermostats have [...]
The future of QR codes
October 23, 2011 – 7:38 pm
It’s been some time now that we’ve been trying to get QR codes working as a marketing or user experience conduit, and it’s still just not working. For the majority of the smartphone-using public, QR codes are just not an option. They don’t know what a QR code is, they don’t know what to do [...]
Why I switched from Android to a 4 year old iPhone
August 24, 2011 – 8:26 pm
This week I stole a first generation iPhone from my year and a half year old daughter. She had been using it for months to walk around with, perched between ear and shoulder, repeating “hello? hello.” It had saliva coated on over it’s once pristine face, but I got rid of that quickly. Maybe a [...]
