Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
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Rant About Online Banking with RBC
When I lived in the US, I had a Bank of America checking account. I used their online banking services all the time, and, simply put, it was awesome. Not only did it do a whole lot (bill pay, transfer funds, updates, etc.) but it was so easy to use.
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It’s a Kind of Magic
There’s a really famous quote attributed to Arthur C. Clarke that I love:
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”
Sometimes, I am just floored by the elegance and truthfulness of this quote, when, using some piece of technology, I stop and wonder “how the heck is this working?” And I think that, at least on [...] -
Cupertino Syndrome
For the first time in as long as I can remember, I got angry at my computer. Not just perturbed, but teeth-clenching, fist pounding, expletive-blurting, co-worker-disturbing angry.
Surprisingly, my anger wasn’t directed at the network for being slow or at Parallels for taking entirely too long to boot up or shut down. It wasn’t because I [...] -
Case Study: Using Wordpress in a large corporation
One of the challenging things about doing strategic planning / user experience design for the mobile technology industry, is that things are in constant flux. The industry moves so quickly, with so many new players popping up and dying out, new social networks growing rapidly or shrivelling away to obsolesence, shifts in mobile platforms, a [...]
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DIYcity’s “SickCity” is now live!
I’ve been working with this excellent organization called DIYcity. It’s a grassroots movement (dare I say?) which is chartered to design and build web-based solutions to help alleviate some of the problems that plague the cities in which we live (more in this in another post, I promise). It was started by a guy named [...]
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The Danger of Time- and Place-Shifting
Today was an historic day, and I’ve got the screenshots to prove it!
Walking into Chicago Public Library after work to pick up a book (I had no idea that you could get these things anywhere other than Amazon!), I saw a sign which said something to the effect of “The library auditorium will be open [...]
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Usability of Streaming Video Interfaces
It’s all about Feedback
Feedback is important. Whether in the context of personal relationships, professional careers, or user interface design, it’s important for people to know how they’re doing and what’s going on in some one else’s head (or on some server). In fact, I can think of very few situations where more feedback would be [...] -
This American Life Podcast
In an effort to be a non-wasteful, environmentally-conscious individual, I recently decided that I would not buy a new iPod touch if my old iPod — my very old iPod — was still working. Unfortunately, it is It doesn’t have touch (well, barely, if you count the touch wheel), and it doesn’t have [...]
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Android for the people
Android for the people
Originally uploaded by ante10peThere’s nothing like the mall at Christmastime. Especially when that mall is on LONG ISLAND.
Saw this huuuuge advert hanging from the ceiling of Roosevelt Field shopping mall. There’s the little Android dude in the lower left hand banner of the banner. Is there a comparable iPhone app?
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New York Public Library’s Flickr Photostream
I’ve really enjoyed browsing through a bunch of old photos posted to Flickr by the New York Public Library (thanks to BoingBoing for posting).
This seems to be part of a recent trend. Not too long ago, The Library of Congress released a bunch of photos to Flickr, as have The Smithsonian Institute, and many other [...]
