Our minds are quick to convert new optical experiences into familiar stories, favored viewpoints, comforting metaphors. No wonder, for how else can we manage optical data flows of 10 MB per second without familiar categories for filing, without the rage for wanting to conclude? An excerpt called "See Now… Words Later," from the Edward Tufte’s [...]
Here’s my problem: I have to remember the date I made a change on a website if I want to do a simple before and after comparison in Google Analytics. Something happened on March 17, but you’d never know it by looking at Google Analytics. What if Google Analytics let you place a simple marker [...]
The Sullivan nod is a sales technique used to create a subconscious suggestion to a customer to purchase one particular item out of a list of like items. It is used most frequently by bartenders and waiters when reciting lists of items (such as alcohol or wine) in the hopes of getting the customer to [...]
It requires a system restart. Really? I have to stop what I’m doing for iTunes? Adobe-esque. It makes me create a new Quick Launch icon. This is incredibly dumb software, in the About Face sense of the word. It clutters my desktop without asking. Is this 1999? Are we still putting shit on users’ desktops [...]
My GMail account had some new features when I logged in this morning. The most noticeable addition is Contacts, a lonely looking link that lets me manage the contact information of anyone in my GMail inbox. I don’t really do contact management (I’m not that important), but I like that GMail takes the task of [...]
I accidentally tabbed into a comments field on a blog I read (but have never commented on). Firefox helped me hit the ground running:
An interesting set of design ideas: http://www.portfolio.com/infographics/2007/06/terminals I don’t have nearly enough domain knowledge to be able to make an intelligent—or even sarcastic!—remark about these three designs, but IDEO’s appeals the most to me for some reason. It’s probably the typography. Anyway, all three are interesting approaches to redesigning an old, complicated, and very important [...]
Sans Comic Sans is written by Matt Raw in Brooklyn, NY.