June 15, 2012

Usually when people talk about usability they’re talking about usability on the web. But most people have forgotten (or perhaps never realized) that usability has been a key measurement in tangible objects like books and hand tools for ages. These types of objects have been critical to the advancement of the human race, so much that we don’t even have […]… Read more »

July 8, 2011

Have you seen Paris Hilton’s new TV show in which she yawns across L.A. in a pink Bentley? 2007 this is not, although the resurrection of Miss Hilton into our living rooms has elicited some interesting comparisons between her relevance in our current age. … Read more »

January 20, 2011

Hold your tears – MySpace is dying. Commentators are finding a bit of entertainment out of the obituary, colorfully describing MySpace’s famously bad layout as akin to “Times Square tawdriness” and just plain “boorish”.  Lest we forget that, in the words of our own Ivey Inman, “Myspace was super hot until just a couple years ago,” our present perch can […]… Read more »