but don’t worry! the next version will have new LIBRARIES and everything will be better.
Tag: usability
Ubiquity
quicksilver for the web. pretty awesome
Simplicity
NFC
Want to print a picture, just tap the phone to the printer. Want to pass your business card? Just tap your phone with someone else’s. Easy peasy.
OpenOffice fails at life
if you ever tried to use OpenOffice or NeoOffice to create a presentation with images and timed animations (bare-bones, standard stuff, in other words), do yourself a favor and delete those useless applications from your machine. you’ll thank me. how those clowns can ship software that randomly replaces your images with the dreaded ‘broken image’ image, or that forgets about the animations it is supposed to show, and gives you a blank slide instead, is beyond me. with desktop “productivity” applications this bad, no wonder people are defecting to online.
Apple Pins
Apple’s pins are sleek and absolutely precise. Google’s pins are precise-ish, bulky arrowheads which often obscure much of the surrounding map
+1
Usability Disaster Story
What I discovered with horror as I looked through the logs was that people using Windows and MacOS were downloading software that was 2 years old. Mono 1.1.7 (released sometime in May of 2005) was the most popular download.
Is software too soft?
Nobody ever gets into a car and asks: “Hey, where’d the steering wheel go?” +1 the unixy customization fetish needs to be much better hidden.
Live.com Usability
Walking barefoot over a cobblestone path is possible, and no step in particular will injure your feet. But the overall experience isn’t nice. It’s the same when a website has minor usability problems piling up: none of the issues taken on its own is disastrous at all, but taken together, the site ends up being a slightly bad experience. I wanted to take a minute to illustrate such a collection of minor usability issues with the new Live.com, Microsoft’s search effort. All in all shows that the Live.com team doesn’t have people with a 100% focus on usability.
why microsoft will continue to inhale the exhaust of their competent competitors as it watches them pull away, and take their remaining market share.
SnapFish
How the heck am I supposed to get my pictures? Why doesn’t this “smart” software just put them in the email so I can see them when I get the message? Attaching JPEG files to an email message is hardly advanced technology, folks!
this is why travel companies and other don’t belong on the internet: their sites are just too atrocious.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 