December 15, 2011 by sean Leave a comment
The Gutenberg Diagram is a concept popularized by newspaper designer Edmund C. Arnold in which a display divided into four equal areas can help designers ensure that they are taking full advantage of a user’s reading gravity, the natural path that most peoples’ eyes will follow when being presented with information. In Western cultures we [...]
July 21, 2011 by sean Leave a comment
Trying to purchase tickets for the Natural History Museum of LA presents me with an awkward salutation dilemma. This reminds me of that scene in The Goonies, where they have to play the exact right piano keys or be dropped into a cavernous abyss. I hope I pick the right one! This kind of obvious [...]
July 15, 2011 by sean Leave a comment
I gave up on Microsoft improving their product interfaces a long time ago, but they still occasionally shock me with an especially terrible design decision. Their new Outlook Web Access interface is an abomination. I’ll eventually write up a post dissecting exactly why the whole UI is criminally awful, but for now I’m going to focus on [...]
