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iPhone: Why It’s Not Perfect
Between the time the iPhone was announced and when I finally got one last December, I happened to read Don Norman’s Emotional Design. Don Norman explains how the perfect product must excel at three levels: visceral, behavioral, and reflective.
OMG, It’s Gorgeous!
A visceral reaction is one that you cannot help. It happens at the [...] -
User Experience
On Generic, Annoying Emails
We all have our fair share of gripes about web usability. There are those fields for credit card numbers that do not allow spaces or dashes, making what you type hard to read and verify. And all because a lazy developer wouldn’t spend five minutes to take spaces and dashes out of a [...]
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Cedrus, Design, User Experience
ROKR E8: Barely Haptic
After my first day attending CES, I went back to my hotel room and checked out news coverage of the event by Engadget and other tech oriented sources. This effusive Cool Hunting post caught my attention. It described the new, not-yet-released Motorola ROKR E8 (the highlights in the quote are mine):
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Design, User Experience
Vista Blues — Literally
In the what-were-they-thinking department, here’s a quiz:
See this next Windows Vista screen. In three seconds or less, determine how many list items are selected:You can’t figure it out? Hint: the answer is not three.
You still can’t figure it out?
The answer is two. Yes, two. In the screen snapshot above, only “RoboHelp [...] -
Design, User Experience
How to Flatten the Apple Keyboard. Or Not?
12.05.07 | Permalink | 3 CommentsAfter my earlier post where the ultra thin Apple Keyboard was taken apart (Apple model number MB110LL/A), Ben FrantzDale wrote to ask if the “bump” where the USB connectors are found can be removed.
In other words, instead of this standard issue keyboard:Ben would like:
I have an idea on how to accomplish this, though it’s non [...]
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User Experience
On Roxio, or How NOT To Do Electronic Commerce
12.04.07 | Permalink | 2 CommentsMy wife had a VCR tape converted to DVD-R. The tape itself was converted from reel that was filmed back in 1964! She asked me to make copies of those precious 15 minutes of grainy video so that we can pass them out to family members. “Sure honey, no big deal”.
I had [...]
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User Experience
How to Make Firefox Better
11.21.07 | Permalink | 3 CommentsI use three Mac OS browsers: Safari, Firefox, and Opera. And none is “perfect”. I used Firefox on the PC for at least a couple of years prior to switching to a Mac, so it was one of the first programs that I downloaded for Mac OS. I tried to use it [...]
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Design, User Experience
Curiosity Killed the… Apple Keyboard
11.19.07 | Permalink | 9 CommentsWhen Apple released the new iMacs with the new ultra slim keyboard a couple of months ago, I wondered right away: how did they put this thing together? how did they manage to screw the top and bottom parts parts together?
So I ordered one from Amazon. My impression: it’s no Moshi Celesta (my favorite [...] -
User Experience
Mac vs. Windows Font Rendering
When Apple released Safari for Windows, it wanted Windows users to experience their “superior” font rendering technology. Joel Spolsky disagrees with Apple and prefers Microsoft’s font rendering algorithm. And I respectfully disagree with Joel.
First, a bit of personal background. As someone who purchased the original Mac 128K back in February 1984, it’s [...]
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My name is Hisham Abboud. Curious Chap is my blog about hardware design, user interfaces, and other related topics. During daytime, I play at Cedrus. I still haven't decided what I want to do when I grow up.
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