It’s no great mystery that truly great user interfaces are the ones that are engineered to stay out of the way.
Staying out of the way’ means not distracting your users. Rather, good UIs let your users complete goals. The result? A reduction in training and support costs, and happier, satisfied and highly engaged users.
One of my biggest issues with developing for facebook is that there are so many applications out there that dilute the platforms underlying value by using unethical practices.
Even as our economy seems to be going down the tubes, social media is booming. Work is overflowing out of large agencies, but ego continues to dam it up. How can we open the floodgates? I propose a culture of cooperation.
As a culture that is constantly moving, it’s good to step back and take a hard look at what you’ve accomplished.
A month or so ago I decided to pick up some Field Notes Brand notebooks and start writing things down instead of trying to store them in my head.