“What Makes a Design Intuitive?”...

Last night I attended Refresh Boston’s (LINK) presentation on intuitive design, featuring keynote speaker Jared Spool of User Interface Engineering (UIE). (LINK) Jared asked the central question “What Makes a Design Intuitive?” and proceeded to illuminate his audience with humor and clear examples of things that are (and are not) intuitive. My illustrative (expanded) version of the take-away is here. For those...

Sounds like fun!...

First, a confession. I’m 37 years old and (wince), I…don’t like to text. Whew. That wasn’t so bad after all. And actually, I feel good about not liking to text. After all, I do kind of subscribe to the “if it’s worth saying, say it” (ie: call me!) mode of thinking. For the most part, it seems to me, people tend to text when they are either: 1. Supposed to be doing something else (i.e.: paying attention...