Here’s another installment in mouseover poorly-thought-out design. This time, we’ll visit Google Voice (a great service BTW, do yourself a favor and check it out). On their page, they have this as a left-hand menu: Ok, looks innocuous enough, but if you want to click on “contacts” and you make the bad mistake of approaching [...]
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Inane mouseover bad UI design – Google Voice
November 23, 2011
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Conformation!
November 22, 2011
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Saw this in an email today: “I will be sending out a conformation email…“ Now, given that conformation generally means a “structural arrangement” I can only assume that this much anticipated email will contain details on how we’re going to get together. LOL!
Same lip smudge? Cheezy makeup
November 15, 2011
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I can’t believe nobody caught that. Must have been the same makeup artist enamored with the lip smudge.
Recycle Bin – take your propaganda elsewhere
November 7, 2011
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We used to have a trash can on both the Mac and Windows. This was a neat idea; a place for discarded items to go before they are really deleted so you can get them back if you have to. Then, Microsoft decided to “go green” and renamed it to “Recycle Bin”. Since this was [...]
Are you sure? Really sure? Recycle Bin paranoia
November 4, 2011
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Why yes, I AM sure, that’s why I selected “delete” in the first place. Now don’t get me wrong, I think it’s good to confirm things which may be questionable, such as “Are you sure you want to launch the ICBM?”. However, deleting a file doesn’t really delete it. It just puts it into the [...]
For the last few years, I have been doing my annual pilgrimage to the gadgets gallery looking for a gadget that will take a URL of a webcam generated image, and will display it on my desktop, refreshing it on some schedule. You wouldn’t think this would be a difficult thing, would you? Every single [...]
Winter will soon be here. Time to think about snow!
November 2, 2011
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Well ok, not everybody in sunny Southern CA needs to think about snow. I happen to live in the mountains, and so it is a factor for me. I thought I’d share my recent thoughts & discoveries in this area as ski season approaches. Every year, we get “flatlanders” who drive up the hill woefully [...]
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