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Sep 21, 2006
Branding

Propagandizing Propaganda

My friend Rob forwarded me a link to an interview on AIGA about Aleksandar Macasev’s Joseph Goebbels Project: I am not trying to [create a hero out Goebbels by elevating Goebbels as an icon of information and disinformation], but part of the point...

Sep 20, 2006
Windows

All Shell all the Time

The Windows Shell team has a new aggregated blog at shellrevealed.com, which includes posts from everyone from Raymond Chen to Dave Vronay. A great way to stay on top of what’s happening with the team that is most critical to the Windows user expe...

Sep 20, 2006
Usability

Joel on Unusable Mobile Phones

Joel Spolsky rips into Sprint’s new LG Fusic phone: All the "tipping point" theories in the world won’t protect Sprint from the basic truth that the LG Fusic user interface could basically serve as an almost complete textbook for a semester-long c...

Sep 19, 2006
Innovation

Gestural Interfaces

Jeff Han, a research scientist at NYU, demonstrated a prototype of a gesture-driven user interface at TED 2006. The “interface-free” UI (I hate terms like that) is demonstrated with several interesting demos, which hew towards data visualization i...

Sep 14, 2006
Apple

Fugliness, thy name is iTunes 7.0

While I was off recruiting impressionable, young college students to come join Microsoft over the past two days, Apple announced a slew of updates, including a new version of iTunes. Unfortunately, Apple seems to have beaten iTunes 7 with the ugly...