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With just a day left until Apple’s special event the company scheduled for January 27th, speculation on the expected-to-be-announced Apple Tablet (or whatever the official name turns out to be) has reached a fevered pitch. I don’t think any rumored Apple product — iPhone included — has garnered so much coverage by bloggers and the […]

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Here’s something I never thought I’d be saying: I’m actually excited for a phone made by Palm.

Palm hosted a press conference at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Thursday to announce a new mobile phone, which it named the Palm Pre. Prior to the press conference, technology enthusiasts almost unanimously staked the future […]

I don’t know if me being excited about this Amazon announcement is more a statement of me as a person, or this crazy world we live in, and I don’t care. Amazon’s new Frustration-Free Packaging program they just launched is 10 shades of awesome. Everyone — customer, manufacturer, deliverer, and Amazon — wins.

So anyway, the details. […]

Well, another Worldwide Developers Conference kicked-off and another Stevenote wrapped up. The announcements were pretty well covered in the previous week by the Apple rumor squad, the *big one being the release of the iPhone 3G next month (July 2008). Among other things, It has a faster connection, built-in GPS, and a price tag that […]

I give up. In any design, once you learn how to do something once, you should be able to do it again. This is really horrible.

That is design guru Don Norman talking in a New York Times article about a poorly designed Kodak digital picture frame he was trying out at a Best Buy store. […]

If you’re an Apple fan, you probably know that today is the big release date for the latest version of the Mac OS, 10.5, a.k.a Leopard. The two and a half year span since the release of Tiger is short by Microsoft standards, but is the longest Mac users have had to wait for a […]

Via 37signals’ Signal vs. Noise blog, I came across what seems like a really simple idea that looks like it actually works: the Skeeter Bag.

What is it? Basically, a box fan with a mosquito attached to the front of it. Flip it around so that your CO2 (or your dog’s, livestock’s, etc.) blows out toward […]

One of my design heroes is Edward Tufte. He’s the master of telling compelling stories with information, and has some of the best books on the subject ever made.

Stanford Magazine has a great article on Tufte in its latest issue, which you can read online. It tells of Tufte’s love for Galileo and many other, […]

Earlier, I was flipping through some slides (PDF) from a David Heinemeier Hansson presentation, and this one jumped out at me:

The presentation was given in Japan, which is why you’ll notice the Japanese at the bottom. I think it actually adds to the beauty of the slides…

Update on 1/17/2007: There’s a follow-up to this post about a call I had with a Symantec employee and this issue.

Having created web sites and applications for a number of years now, I’ve developed a pretty good nose for bad design. Sometimes I find little things that bug me, and other times they’re blatant and […]