http://www.andersramsay.com user experience design, living in new york city, and more... Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:16:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When you first encounter something that has been designed just right - the iPhone, Gmail, the Swedish cheese knife and now Google Chrome, you always find yourself wondering what you were thinking using all those other crappy products (I can't imagine, for example, going back to a regular cell ... http://www.andersramsay.com/2008/09/02/take-me-chrome-where-i-belong/ My friend Karl just sent me a link to his art blog flamingodingo.blogspot.com I love his raw style. I also love how there is this sense that the same characters (or their cousins) re-appear in different art pieces. Hard to explain, but it's weirdly sort of Stockholmish Swedish, culturally - ... http://www.andersramsay.com/2008/07/31/karls-flamingo-dingo-art-blog/ I'm currently using Firefox 3 RC2 FireFox 3 and absolutely loving it - I love the new tags feature, the overall faster browsing experience, everything... Well, almost. One thing that I find quite strange is the location of the control for jumping back several pages: I remember the first time I needed ... http://www.andersramsay.com/2008/06/11/firefox-3-back-button-ui-annoyance/ Over the weekend, I think, Google updated their favicon (or shortcut icon) ... First off, I was pretty confused when I saw this, since seeing that g out of context doesn't remind me at all of the Google brand. The old favicon was much better: While that lowercase g could be ... http://www.andersramsay.com/2008/06/02/meaningful-favicons/ Just got an email from Wimbledon Live containing the following Dear Anders, As a previous Wimbledon LIVE customer we are contacting you about your preferences. If you would like to be notified about the 2008 Wimbledon LIVE service, please take the following steps to update your preferences: 1) Go to www.wimbledon.org/LIVE. 2) Click “My ... http://www.andersramsay.com/2008/05/22/yet-another-example-of-the-cost-of-bad-email-usability/ Olga just sent me a link to her new project UX Social, in which she's interviewing some guy on how IA could/should be applied to government policies and the like. Oh wait, that's me! (watch the 2nd part at Olga's site) In this interview, Olga gave me an opportunity to ... http://www.andersramsay.com/2008/05/16/ia-policy-and-the-new-york-city-subway/ Just came across this at Machine Thinking: At first, I thought this was two guys in something akin to one of those two-person horse costumes, but then as the video kept playing, I eventually had to accept that this in fact is a machine. Be sure to continue watching until ... http://www.andersramsay.com/2008/03/27/scarily-real-robot-yes-it-really-is-a-robot/ JotSpot used to be my favorite Wiki tool and I was so sad to see it vanish after being acquired by Google. Today, at long last, JotSpot is back in the form of Google Sites. Weirdly, the only way you can sign up to use it (for now), ... http://www.andersramsay.com/2008/02/28/jotspot-reborn-as-google-basecamp/ Anyone and everyone who is voting this Tuesday should watch this video - if nothing else to be inspired. Can also be found at www.yeswecansong.com http://www.andersramsay.com/2008/02/02/yes-we-can/ So, not unexpectedly, the aging 800-pound gorilla Microsoft recently put in a bid to acquire a big box of Viagra aka Yahoo for 44 some billion dollars, hoping to stave off it's losing battle against the young-buck 800 lb (8000 lb?) gorilla Google. Call me a pessimist, but even ... http://www.andersramsay.com/2008/02/01/microhoo/