Usability Archives

Designing Work Spaces the Google Way: Driven by Data

by deCadmus | Feb 26, 2013 | Usability, Web/Tech

After years of being among “the world’s best hermit crabs” by repurposing others’ leftover bits of real estate, Google is considering building its own Googleplex “from scratch”.

A Pile of Content Strategy Books and No Stack to Show for It

by deCadmus | Feb 5, 2013 | Usability, Web/Tech

I’ve been hitting the books on Content Strategy. Here’s what my current reading pile looks like. Or, what would be a pile…

Wayback: The Web Is Not Walden Pond

by deCadmus | Mar 28, 2008 | Coffee, Usability, Web/Tech

From the Bloggle Archives, circa March, 2002. I wrote this as an antidote to what struck me as a surge in misplaced web design ideals; ideals that, in fact, turned out to be the beginning of ‘Web 2.0,’ for all that’s worth. I think it’s as...

Maple-Bacon Goodness Spoiled by PayPal

by deCadmus | Mar 13, 2008 | Usability, Web/Tech

When there is a confluence of links — when not one, but two sites I visit every day features links to the very same interesting new thing — I can’t resist. And so I learned of Lollyphile, and their Maple-Bacon Lollypop. With the exception of...

Worst, Worster, Worstest. Or, Blame it on Starbucks.

by deCadmus | Aug 18, 2007 | Coffee, Usability

Today’s coffee bar is a superabundance of selection that requires more decisions to be made in moments than most will manage for the remainder of their day.

On the calculus of memory (or lack thereof)

by deCadmus | May 5, 2007 | Life in Vermont, Usability, Web/Tech

New Castle lies on the seacoast of New Hampshire, a three hour drive from my home in Vermont. Along the way the road weaves through Vermont’s Green Mountains and New Hampshire’s Boreal forest, and most every turn reveals another postcard-perfect view of...