Friday, February 26, 2010 at 10:02AM I love Omni's commitment to iPad software design by making their own hardware prototypes. To paraphrase Alan Kay:
People who are really serious about software mockups should make their own hardware mockups.
Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 8:42AM 
UX Exchange is a stack exchange site for User Experience design. Looks like a pretty good resource for getting and providing solutions. (Thanks atariboy)
Crowdsource, Ux, help, solutions in Resources Thursday, July 16, 2009 at 8:45PM Get a User Experience problem solved, re-educate me on a UI&us blog topic, crowdsource your design dilemma.
'The UX Hour' an effort to give back something to the community from which I've got so much. It will be one hour a week live video, chat, and skype call-in session somewhat modelled on Leo Laporte's and 37signals' live broadcasts.
To be clear — I'm not a UX 'fixit guru'! But I hope to offer perspective, resource suggestions and a forum for User Experience and User Interface conundrums. There's been a bunch of times when I've been stuck and another perspective has saved the day. It's an experiment, which may or may not prove fruitful…but with your help it can be practical convergence of designers with possible solutions and differing perspectives.
Technically, it will be a Ustream/LiveStream/justin.tv session with chat and Skype (audio) call in. Unfortunately technical and bandwidth issues will limit video to 360x240 initially. I'll supplement with a skitch.com image thread for high resolution images that everyone can contribute to. Any technical suggestions welcomed.
The first UXhour will be at:
Sorry Europe, I realize this will be Monday 01:00 for many of you.
Watch this space and please share your suggestions! It should be a lot of fun.
* Credit goes to Matthew Sanders, a UX guy much more experienced than I, for coming up with the name. Thanks Matt, hope that's OK!
** Note to those reminding me that the UI&us podcast has one, and only one episode to date: hopefully this live approach will be encouragement for more podcasts
Thursday, May 21, 2009 at 12:11PM 
Intel has announced a new OS, Moblin, specifically designed for notebooks and optimized for the atom processor. The Moblin OS is based on Linux, but unlike Linux UI designs I've seen in the past, Moblin takes a fresh approach to managing applications, workspaces and media. It's specifically designed for the small screens of notebooks with pleasing aesthetic, based on what I've seen in the ars technica review and on moblin.org.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009 at 2:20PM Because working memory and rationality share a common cortical source; the pre-frontal cortex, a mind trying to remember lots of information is less able to exert control over its impulses.
I've been listening to an audible audio book called 'How We Decide'; It's full of gems like this. Stanford Scientists discovered the above fact by asking people to memorize 7 digits, under the guise of a 'long term memory test'. The subjects would then walk down the hall and choose between decadent chocolate cake or a bowl of fruit salad.
The same experiment was repeated, but with new subjects being asked to remember a 2 digit number. The difference was striking:
Distracting the brain with a memory task made people more likely to give-in to temptation and choose the calorie dense dessert.
The substrate of reason is so limited, that a few extra digits can become an extreme handicap.
I actually don't know how this relates to the 7 ± 2 that is oft-(over) quoted, but I've never heard about this impact on our ability to mediate our emotions.
Ux, information, psychology in cognitive science