Imparting Online Security onto the Next Generation
I just spent three weeks—mostly weekends, but also waiting days for email responses from customer support—trying to settle my son's Xbox account. All he wanted to do was play Minecraft on...
Web Design
A Ballad of Browser Tabs
Let's talk browser tabs for a sec. I read this newsletter about how someone kept all their browser tabs open: partially, as reminders to open tasks as a rough to-do list, but also as historical relics for reminiscing over past browser behaviors. As they waxed poetically about the archaeological significance of accumulated clutter,...
The Arc Browser
The browser wars, as we knew them back in the 90s through the 2010s, are largely over: IE won over Netscape, Firefox sprung up to provide a much-needed alternative, then Google came and ate everyone's lunch on the desktop while splitting the difference with Safari on mobile. Every browser—save Firefox—runs on...
Evolving the User Interface to the Software Business
For a little while, it seemed inevitable that desktop apps—well, programs , as they were previously known—would all migrate to be web apps, destined to run as tabs in a browser window. In many...
User Experience as a Tool
Is there a moral dimension in designing user experiences? I came across this article by a software creative consultant, someone who has seen their discipline of user interface and experience design stand up as a...
Types Rule Everything Around Me
95% of the information on the web is written language. It is only logical to say that a web designer should get good training in the main discipline of shaping written information, in other words: Typography. This was written in 2006, likely exaggerating for the effect of good types, well before the advent of Web...