Happy Reading

Articles and Essays

• Bugs

  Description of common bugs

• Better browser

  Tog talks on what a browser needs to be

• Better browser (2)

  From a former IE project lead

• Open Source Horror Story

  sums up why I rarely use Open Source products

• Why HCI is in the stone age

  I don't agree with all of this- but it's nice

• Alarm Clock

  Do you have the best alarm clock?

The sources

• Donald Norman

  Many books including my favorite: "the Design of Everyday Things" which is this site's single most inspiration

• Jakob Nielson

  Web usability guru

• Creating passionate Users

  Good articles- updated regularly

• Luke W

  Balance of function and form

• Brain Sparks

  Good articles here

• Henry Petroski

  Author of "Small Things Considered" discussing everyday things

• This is Broken

  Deserves several links here :)

Around the Opera Community

• NPlus

  Best Opera Community Group to date!

Everday reading

• This is Broken

  See what everyday things are broken

• Signal vs. Noise

  Good issues from a smart company

• Usabilty in the news

  A good collection of usabilty issues of the day- I post articles there on occasion

Older stuff we wrote...

• My stove has a crappy UI

  Mental mapping of a stove UI

• Riff on riffs.com

  Browser checking on websites.

• Cable Co Menu guide

  My cable box has the most frustrating UI

• Corporate phones

  The phone you have a work sucks

• When will maps think like us?
• Nail clippers with a catch
• Bad Idea for a Software Interface
• Toothpaste Cap
• Lunch Soup Containers from Hell
• Turbo Tax Usability
• DAPs- Focus on Cord Management
• My posts on MNteractive
• A Brighter Outlook
• Short interview w/Donald Norman
• "Terms of Service" on different types of websites
• Vacuum cleaner
• New Spin on Voice Mail
• Mobile Phone Trackball- Great usability
• BlackBerry Pearl Review
• Pie Menus and Mouse Gestures
• iTunes as a podcast manager
• Collection of Usability Principles
• Web App Forcing Functions
• Techie Toys Series