September 2007
35 posts
August 2007
31 posts
Bad Design in Everyday Life
Make sure to read some of the posts in this thread: Straight Dope Message Board - Bad Design in Everyday Life. It’s one of those moments that validate my job as a designer. Sometimes you feel like you spend your time with unimportant matters like figuring out the perfect position of a button on an interface. When I read this thread however, it makes me realize how much anger and emotion a...
The Comics Curmudgeon →
A great tip from Jeff, this blogs just makes me laugh. Josh, the author, takes apart newspaper comics and gives his own sarcastic interpretation.
Mublogging
Checking if this box.net widget thingy works out to let me post music here. So hopefully there should be a widget popping up below this text with an MP3 player. Let’s see.
Müllsack.org
Check out Müllsack.org. It’s my little brothers blog, I’m so proud of him. Seems like he writes longer entries than me and posts bigger pictures, not sure what he’s trying to prove. Now you can stay up-to-date with another member of the Helzle family.
New CNN
Really happy with the new CNN.com. Great way to get news, especially the video section. High-quality, lots of content, good interface, it’s nice. It’s a little bit tedious that the whole front page is 98% links, because you have to click back and forth all the time, it does allow you to get a good overview over what’s going on though. Much less scary than the New York Times front...
Not an iPhone Review!
But a link to one. Ryan and Joe reviewed it on the FI blog, it’s worth checking out. They go into a lot of detail on some usability and interface shortcomings on the browser, keyboard, txt messages, etc. Now that they’ve lived with the thing for a few weeks, they have a better feeling of what works and what doesn’t, so check it.
