Category: Web, Tech & Design

  • Thank you NRB!

    This weekend I was honored with the privilege of speaking at the NRB Convention with DJ Chuang and Bob Lepine. Our session was a discussion panel on the way “New Media” (blogs, social networking, etc) can be used together with “Old Media” (TV, Radio, print news, etc). I was particularly excited about this opportunity because…

  • My Bad Experience with the Wacom Bamboo Touch

    What a wonderful idea: take a laptop trackpad, a great input device in context, make it larger, and use it as a primary input device peripheral for your desk. I was really looking forward to using the Wacom Bamboo Touch. When I saw one on sale (open item) at Best Buy, I snatched it eagerly.…

  • ColorQube by Xerox is brilliant

    So I’m a few months late on this (it was announced in May) but this is brilliant. ColorQube by Xerox is a technology that uses solid blocks of ink to laser print in color without cartridges. This means substantially less waste and (allegedly) substantially less cost. (I haven’t seen a cost comparison yet.) This is…

  • Evaluating 40 Typefaces

    The October 2009 Usability News Newsletter has a great article highlighting a recent typography study on Web font faces. Know Your Typefaces! Semantic Differential Presentation of 40 Onscreen Typefaces > This article presents results from a study investigating the personality of typefaces. Participants were asked to rate 40 typefaces (from serif, sans serif, display, and…

  • How to deal with all the tweets

    An interesting question came up in my “empty your inbox” post. Similar to a messy inbox, my new distraction is unread tweets in tweetie. How do you handle twitter? Do you put it off until certain times or keep up with it all day? Simple answer: I don’t. Twitter is an information luxury to me.…