Category Archives: Usability

Donald Norman On Usability

By zacharyc | Published: April 6, 2011

Here is a great video (it is long, over an hour) of a talk Donald Norman gave in 2009. (sadly, flash required)

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Bad Dialog UI from E Text Editor

By zacharyc | Published: September 27, 2010

I started using the E Text Editor. Today I wanted to change the font to try something new. (I’m not a huge fan of Courier) Anyway, I get into the theme editing dialog (because that is where the font is stored, even though the font seems to be for all themes). It turns out that [...]

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Minority Report UI

By zacharyc | Published: June 14, 2010

From uiandus.com

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Suggestions for Building a Successful Business Website

By zacharyc | Published: March 29, 2010

Per usual, I’ve been surfing the web. Here are some frustrations I have with some business sites: Items Are Out of Date. Sometimes when browsing a site I will see information about events that have long since expired. This information is not pertinent, and tells the user that you don’t keep your information up to [...]

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Best Payment Form I’ve Seen

By zacharyc | Published: March 9, 2010

I purchased the MacHeist bundle today. If you’re not familiar with it, its a collection of Mac Apps that this group puts together and sells rediculously cheap. I spent 20 bucks, only for one app that I really wanted (Flow by Extend Mac). Regardless, this post is not about that bundle. It’s about my checkout [...]

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Mozy Site Redesign, bad blue text

By zacharyc | Published: February 17, 2010

Mozy is a solution for personal and professional computing backup. They will install some software on your PC to back up your machine using their remote location. I’ve had Mozy for nearly two years, and honestly, I hate it. There software brings my machine to a crawl. The backups take forever. They presets for backups [...]

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Facebook Is Losing It’s Fun

By zacharyc | Published: April 3, 2009

Today I decided to create a Facebook account as woodside’s cheerleading coach. The benefit of this account is that it keeps its distance from my personal Facebook network, but still allows me to create events and groups for Woodside cheerleading. Anyway, I wanted my name to “Coach Zack”. Facebook rejected the name. So I tried [...]

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Apple’s iLife is TOO Good

By zacharyc | Published: March 3, 2009

In an amazing post on Daring Fireball John Gruber quotes the technology directory for a public school in Massachusetts: However, even iLife has its drawbacks in an educational setting. It simply hands so much to the students that they struggle with software (whether Windows, Linux, or even pro-level software on the Mac) that isn’t so [...]

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No Photo Today

By zacharyc | Published: October 17, 2008

I’ve been trying very hard to post a new photo every week day to the Photo of the Day category. It’s not always easy deciding what I want to post, so sometimes I miss it. Today I spent about 30 minutes looking through my photos trying to decide where I wanted to go today. I [...]

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Chop Sticks and Their Effects on the Food I Eat

By zacharyc | Published: October 15, 2008

This is just a brief aside, but it occurred to me today that often times I will pick which restaurant I like based on the quality of the chopsticks they offer. Safeway, for example, gives out really bad chopsticks that never break cleanly. I end up with one huge nob at the end of one [...]

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