I post infrequently enough that you wouldn’t have noticed, but I’m on vacation. Maui, to be precise. It is lovely, and the Junetime habit of the islands (sun during the day, rain at night) makes for lovely slumbering.
It seems that I can’t take a vacation from usability critique, or more likely
usability problems
, try as […]
A lovely thread
over at
SpeakUp
regarding public perception of the big brands (Microsoft, Coke, Nike, etc). It started with a question about
Believing the Good in Brands
, but after the initial post, quickly zeroed in on what I see as the core problem: Companies that make a lot of money constantly have to defend […]
From the
AIGA
website:
The complete set of 50 passenger/pedestrian symbols developed by AIGA is now available on the web, free of charge. Signs are available in EPS and GIF formats.
AIGA forgot, however, that not all of us use Macs. The very nice set of 50 symbols is only available for download from AIGA as an […]
A number of individuals have posted on their sites handy Pantone Matching System (PMS) to RGB color conversion charts. These can be pretty hefty downloads, but I’ve made a small one…
When I first came to work at my current long-term contract (scratch that, make that the second time), I immediately set up a wiki to capture and display thinking, planning, and progress on the very large project that I had been given. This worked, sort of.
At work recently we’ve been tasked with finding out if/why our group is at all special. A consultant has appeared before us to point out his view of the dimensions along which a team might excel (tools, techniques, process, skills, attitude, or discipline). And we’ve been told that as a “shadow” IT group that wants […]