Tag: Communication

Featured on This Is Broken

The broken message I got on my cell phone when deleting a demo game is featured today on This is Broken. Go check it out!

Screenshots: Programmer-speak, flow, and WTF

(flickr tag: flow)

“The null links below are simply for tab navigation on this page” says the note toward the top of this website. The designer clearly tried to be helpful by explaining two things: 1) text that appears to be a link may not actually go anywhere, and 2) you […]

Sharing and communicating are key

(flickr tag: experience)

In the latest article on UXmatters, Pabini Gabriel-Petit of Spirit Softworks writes about the importance of UX design, product management, and engineering sharing the ownership of UX:
Product management defines products that customers need and, therefore, have value to both customers and the product development company. By defining product […]

Programmer-speak

This message was clearly written by programmers. There are two problems I see:

Few people actually know what “JAR Files” are.
The lack of word-wrapping makes this brief message pretty hard to scan. There’s really no excuse for not making sure that words appear as words and not as “A re” and “wa nt”.

I would re-word it […]

Formatting tips from Scott Adams

(flickr tag: travel)
Scott Adams, of Dilbert fame, recently posted on his blog about some of the atrocious formatting used in online travel itineraries and driving directions.
When I book a flight on Orbitz, they e-mail me this little confusing mess of a confirmation that just pisses me off:
“Tuesday, June 5, 2007
United Airlines […]

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