“Groovy Motherfucker”

Spoiler: OpenID usability SUCKS MASSIVE DONKEY COCKS IN HELL FOREVER. The mental model is completely broken. Its one use that I can see: an open backend for “Login to this site with your foo.com account” style buttons

Pretty damned nifty usability-testing app for OS X. With an *awesome* icon. Similar to (and considerably cheaper than) the Windows app Morae.

Nothing earth-shattering or new, but food for thought.

Don Norman on search boxes being the command lines of today.

Uncle Jakob has officially run out of things to write about.

I’m playing with Vista on my laptop, and this “improvement” from Microsoft was pissing me off. Thankfully there is a “solution”. One that is a usability nightmare waiting to happen (drag a folder too close to the edge of the screen, and it becomes a toolbar that is hard to work out how to close).

Joel rips into the craptacular experience of the new Sprint phone. I bet the PR bod who figured sending free phones to bloggers was a great idea is regretting it.

Track where users are clicking on your webpages so you can slap in advertising/tune your site’s usability (delete as appropriate)

Hitting the ‘Insert’ key in Word 2007 will no longer enable the inexplicable document-eating mode. It had never occurred to me just how horrendous a usability experience the Insert key could be.

Awesome post about the brokenness of “MIcrosoft Enhanced” cable company PVRs.

MS unveil their new UI for Office. Curious to see how this works in real life, but the photos look like usability could go either way.

Number of button presses required to see/change the rating of a track on the iPod nano: Three, Four or Five, depending on whether you have Lyrics and Cover Art attached to the track. Hey Apple! Remember “consistency”?