Wednesday, June 3. The shoes I wore to meet the architect.
My house is not a piece of software. It is not a computer or an application program. But it is
On Microsoft Excel, Big Software, and Brazilian Favelas.
I often telling people designing for Excel is more like urban design than anything else. Because like a city, big
On touching data.
Touch interface design guidelines dictate that the more simple and limited the gestural language used to control a system, the
On loving fashion.
Seattle is ranked high on the list of America’s worst-dressed cities. Right up there with Boulder, Cleveland, and
Tuesday, January 13. The shoes I wore to meet the architect.
Design is about constraints. Technical constraints, physical constraints, financial constraints, political constraints. We are at the stage in our home
On birthday cake and ramen noodles.
In exactly two weeks, I will be 48. Which means it’s time for birthday cake.
Enter my coworker, Safiya,
Who made that Pantone 629M?
Robin’s egg blue is my favorite color. Luckily, it looks really good with brown. I’m getting ready to
On how good design makes food taste better.
I never knew I was a foodie gourmande until I didn’t have access to good food. Misery loves company,
On the yonic and the phallic.
I have never had any desire to go to Dubai. But that changed this week when I listened to this
On Learnability Theory and gestural interfaces.
How do humans learn to speak the language of machines? In order to communicate with computers, interfaces embody a set
