Archive for the 'Experience and Interaction' Category

Setting Up And Synching The AppleTV

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

My parents recently purchased an AppleTV after seeing mine on their last visit to Minneapolis. They got it last week and my dad got it all set up without any issue, until the very end, and it’s the end of the linking process that I think Apple could revise a bit to cut down on […]

Google’s new Picks For You service

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

The new Google Toolbar came out today with a new button - ‘Picks For You’. I don’t have the new toolbar, but thanks to InsideGoogle I’ve gone through the picks for me. I’m moderately impressed, but not blown away. The majority of the picks were appropriate but nothing too out there.
Lots of Minneapolis/St. Paul and […]

We Need That Tomorrow

Friday, March 30th, 2007

I was reading Brandon Schauer’s post "And um, can we get that tomorrow?" over the course of the last few days and thinking about it. I save posts in Google Reader that I know I want to go back to soon, and this one has been sitting at the top of one folder for a […]

Usability Frustrations - Rent.com and Starbucks.com

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

I came across a couple annoying functionalities yesterday that got me thinking further on consistency and making things easy for users. These are things that made my life more difficult when the company was trying to encourage my business.
Rent.com 
I’m working with a friend to create a new site for a rental property management company. He’s […]