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Skittle Yourself With Unhub

A couple weeks ago Skittles changed their website so that rather than Skittles.com leading to a brand website it now leads to one of several social media websites, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Wikipedia, etc. along with a widget allowing visitors to navigate between them.  Relying on these sites rather than their own releases their control of [...]

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Google Mail Goggles Begats Undo Send

Saving the world from drunken emails last year Google launched Mail Goggles that was an after hours hurdle to sending inappropriate emails by requiring a few math problems be solved in advance.  That humorous concept seems have led to a more serious and useful feature.  Google Mail’s new  Undo Send functionality holds your email for [...]

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Baking In Usability Testing

Some  symbols are obvious, like red hexagons and yellow triangles for street signs.  Some are less well known, but unconsciously drive our understanding and decisions, such as orange being the international color for decaffeinated coffee.  At our peril we ignore these shorthand identifiers and therefore risk misunderstandings and errors. Baking Soda, Baking Powders and Their [...]

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Trumblog Says: Accurate Headlines Are Required for Credibility and Trust

My wife is always impressed with how much I read and keep on top of the news, which results in lot of stupid facts that I can pull up at a moments notice. She thinks that I read a lot, but the dirty truth is that I’m a skimmer. Books, those I really do read, [...]

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Blogging at 37,000 Feet

This post is made possible by the folks at Virgin America and Go Go Inflight Internet.  I am flying over the heartland of the United States, returning email, IMing, Twittering , surfing the web, posting to Flickr and now blogging.  There are some who will mourn the loss of one more refuge from accessibility, but [...]

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