Over a year ago in a blog post I discussed what makes a great user interface. I questioned Facebook’s big interface switch and I held up Twitter, MySpace and LinkedIn to its standard. Looking back, everything I discussed feels relevant but also somehow remarkably out of date.
When I surf the web now I’m not [...]
Archive for July, 2009
From User Interface to User Experience
Poll: TechCrunch is publishing confidential Twitter info. Where do you stand?
So we couldn’t help following the string of TechCrunch stories over the past couple days releasing confidential Twitter company information and strategy on their blog. TechCrunch was e-mailed the info by a hacker who managed to answer the password safety questions of one of the Twitter founder’s gmail account. Yikes.
TechCrunch’s actions are highly controversial, and [...]
Book Review – ‘ The Dream’ by Gurbaksh Chahal
During a rare day off work due to getting the flu, I picked up a book I had purchased a couple of months ago that I hadn’t gotten around to reading. The book is called ‘The Dream: How I learned the risks and rewards of entrepreneurship and made millions’ it is basically an autobiography [...]
Smibs visits Silicon Valley: The real-time web is coming on fast
Last Friday I flew down to San Francisco to attend the TechCrunch CrunchUp conference. This year the conference topic was ‘The Real Time Stream’. The conference was aimed to capture the opportunities and latest developments arising from the the rapidly growing amount of real-time data that is generated on micro-blogging services like twitter, friendfeed and [...]
Book Review: AntiPatterns
I think every software developer should read AntiPatterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis. It’s not the most engaging read (it could be much worse), but it’s well worth it. Knowing software design antipatterns is just as important as knowing the Gang of Four patterns. Not all of the patterns are perfectly applicable, but [...]
