Annoying Design » usability

The MacOS – UX/UI Design is Just Aesthetic?

ross — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:29:55 +0000

I think I’ll repost this one, because oh, it’s so true. A decade of desktop interface design improvements have all been aesthetic.

The Usability of Print Advertising

ross — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:16:04 +0000

The way that text formatting and layout of pages on a website effects usability is a standard part of user experience thinking. In some cases, streamlining the content on a page, or moving a button around at a key conversion point, can mean millions of dollars in return. Shortly put, good web design emphasizes a [...]

An Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg

ross — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:15:24 +0000

Dear Mark, I know the Huffington Post ranted about it, and that you’ve probably been inundated with commentary recently, and that realistically, dear Mark, you’ll never read this, but I wanted to write you a letter about how to fix your website, “The Facebook,” which is broken now that someone hacked into it and did [...]

Building a UX Team of One

ross — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:53:39 +0000

It’s been a long blogging hiatus. I’ve been taking time to work on my job search and figure out what I’m most passionate about), But now I’ve started working on a big blog post titled “Developing Experience Design Within The Traditional Agency.” My hypothesis is that as consumer distrust and distaste of advertising increases, they’ll [...]

Myspace, A Place For CAPTCHAs

ross — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:26:04 +0000

Using MySpace these days, you come across more CAPTCHAs than you do content. It’s frustrating “solving” these all the time, and sometimes downright ridiculous. In the words of my former boss, Harley Manning, “You can’t annoy someone into liking your brand.”

Some Thoughts on MySpace’s Redesign

ross — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:29:06 +0000

MySpace is rolling out their new re-design, as of yesterday, which the brilliant folks at Adaptive Path played a large part in. I’m always impressed by their work, but I was surprised by the screenshots of the redesign I saw on Valleywag who notes: “When Fox Interactive began interviewing Web designers for the job last [...]

It’s not everyday you see a "500 error" like this…

ross — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 23:13:00 +0000

“Stocks plunged today after a sell-off in China rattled markets worldwide and fanned fears that the economy may be vulnerable to a downturn.” [See the NYTimes article] After hearing this news that the recent stock market utopia isn’t as rapturous as Jim Cramer would like you to believe, I went to Google Finance to check [...]