usability fails are everywhere and it’s sad.
While I’m here, I’d like to mention that there are a few reasons I miss my Blackberry Curve. I’m happy with the iPhone, and I’m excited by the creativity displayed by app builders when they’re given affordances like touch screen and accelerometers. However, there are some things that the Blackberry just does better, besides the [...]
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23 Feb 2009I’m not that fond of the Camera app for the iPhone, but I’m quite fond of Night Camera, and I think the latter fixes a couple of really big problems in the former.
For starters, it’s incredibly difficult to avoid blurry photos because of how you hold the iPhone to take pictures. I have probably 1 [...]
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22 Jan 2009The role of paper prototyping in the discovery of DNA’s structure from 90 percent of everything
New police computer system impeding arrests from Schneier on Security
Playful home/office shelf from swissmiss
Say goodbye to done from Adaptive Path
A bike lane that travels with you from swissmiss
The iPhone mind from The Frontal Cortex
My name is Leanna Gingras and I'm a graduate student at the University of Michigan's School of Information. My main vice is angry muttering. Instead of angrily muttering to myself whenever I encounter an astonishingly ineptly-designed object, I will mutter about it here and you can read it and we can angrily mutter together. I'll also be posting about stuff I do, links I think are nifty, and places I go.