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I am a photographer, entrepreneur, software engineer, guitarist, climber, and telemark skier

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Posts Tagged usability

How Facebook can dramatically improve Pages

Despite all the bitching and moaning, I think the recent facebook redesign is great. Focusing on the stream, and the ease of sharing a variety of content works very well. But Facebook Pages feel like an afterthought that was tacked on, hacked on, and clearly never thought through. And now, let the Airing of Grievances [...]


Why Safari 4′s new tab layout is detrimental to usability

While there were many good improvements made to Safari 4 beta, I hope that Apple considers bringing the tabs back to their rightful place, or at least offering an option for classic tab view. Here are the reasons I believe the new tab layout is actually detrimental to usability. Fitts’s law. When I click to [...]


Rails moves to Lighthouse

In a series of dev infrastructure changes, the Rails team is moving to Lighthouse as its bugtracking system. I wrote about Lighthouse more than a year ago as an application to watch in the bugtracking space, and now they’re coming into the limelight with official support from the Rails team. I’m really happy to see [...]