Dilbert on Web Design – and more
Hm… I think I know which website they may be talking about: No kidding… yes, I know it’s April Fools Day, but this is real – an accounting SaaS provider , no less. I once speculated on a brave new business model: Ugly Service taking commissions from the sunglasses industry… but this is beyond imagination. [...]
Another New Startup for Seattle Starts Today
What is interesting about problems is that if you are lucky enough to have a good idea that will help solve the problem you can pretty much do a great startup. Over the last week my startup has been in trouble yet again, and in thinking through some of the problems with third party selling [...]
Death by PDF
Image via Wikipedia It’s Sunday morning, I’ve barely finished my coffee and here’s an email pitch to check out a site – vendor supported but neutral resource, blah, blah … hm… dunno… Oh, well, let’s spend 5 minutes. Click, click, nice design, Web 2.0-ish, lightweight, easy to view – until I click another page button, [...]
Webstock – Damian Conway – Web 2.0.1
Damian Conway is a PhD in computer science and, until recently, was honorary professor of computer science at Monash University. He’s a designer, a columnist and an author. Why does the web still suck for most mortal users – and how can we reduce the suck-tion. We need a service pack for the whole damn [...]
What the Next Generation Acer Aspire One Netbook Still Lacks
… is a screen appropriate for working on the Net (which is what Netbooks are supposedly for). Most websites today are designed at a resolution of 1024×768, and guess what: there’s not one single (good) Netbook on the market today that that can display that. All of the current crop, including the new 10.1” Acer [...]
What the New Day-long Use Asus Netbook Still Lacks
… is a screen appropriate for working on the Net (which is what Netbooks are supposedly for). Most websites today are designed at a resolution of 1024×768, and guess what: there’s not one single (good) netbook on the market today that that can display that. All of the current crop, including the deluxe Asus S101 [...]
Should You Redesign Your Website to 800×600 – Or Wait For Netbook Makers to Wake Up and Give Us Decent Screens?
Oh, size issues again… Size Matters – said yours truly back in April, before returning the very first eee PC after only a day: I could get used to the screen size, my fingers would learn to deal with the keyboard, but it’s impossible to browse the Net with this thing. The problem is that [...]
