Jure Cuhalev

Archive for the ‘usability’ Category

The Eclipse project, providing a powerful IDE editor, has a smart download page that detects what kind of platform you are on related to that suggests you download page. The only problem is that in the process they fail to clearly communicate download links.
Screenshot with important areas highlighted is as such:

What happened here is they [...]

At the Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin I was given a business card with a special code on it, that one enters into form field at vcrd.net and gets back that persons contacts in a vCard microformat. It is then possible to import this into virtually any Personal Information Management application.
Using their application [...]

Some time ago I read Cory Doctorows editorial about possible ways that your ex-coworkers will kill Facebook; because your colleagues and bosses will want to be friends on Facebook with their employees, and in process invade privacy of things they do in their personal life and would rather keep it private. Instead of denying their [...]

Videos from TED are something of incredible nature. Each being about 20 minutes long, also perfect to watch while traveling, especially on the plane when 20 minutes is just about right before flight attendants starts serving something or turbulence happens. I’m usually doing this while multitasking on a number of other pre-trip issues, yet for [...]

Observing how RescueTime, a neat application for tracking computare usage, behaves on my Mac got me thinking about fall-back mechanisms in applications. It seems that there is a bug that causes it to quit every few hours. What is left is grayed out menu bar with just a couple of options to “hide”. [...]