Posts tagged with "ux"

I managed to send an invite to TripIt to everyone in my GMail addressbook this morning. This was unintentional, I guess either I am stupid or the TripIt interface is unclear.

Anyway, as I have 500+ email addresses in GMail, and some are people I have mailed once, this might turn out to be quite awkward. So sorry about that if you got the mail and wonder why the hell I sent it.

Eurocard really wants you to close the window. (“Stäng fönstret” is swedish for “Close the window”)

For a long time, I’ve wanted to make the switch and start using online apps, but there has always been reasons that have kept me back. It seems that Dion and I share the same opinion on this one, and he sums up the problem very well.

Why in the name of one trillion unused functions of which the one you actually use doesn’t work can something so completely dysfunctional as Word ever become so successful?

Update: Yes, a lot of aggravation was the cause of the rant above, and yes, I actually have to use it as Pages can’t handle .dot files or quite complex table based company headers and footers.

These days when almost every body is doing the agile thing, there is still one part of the software development process that is missing out - the design of the GUI.

Too often some snazzy web design studio is brought in, thumb rings and all, to produce mockups in Photoshop. These are then given to the programmers to implement to the last pixel.

I am sorry, but this is the waterfall process straight up. And it does not help that you implement it page by page or even component by component - that is just dividing the predefined work into smaller bits.