Archive for February 2008

Amazon’s Lack of Anticipatory Design

In interaction design, usability on 17 February 2008 tagged amazon, anticipatory design with 2 comments

As a wedding gift, my employer hooked us up with a fabulous getaway to Sierra Mar in Big Sur. Sierra Mar is easily one of the Bay Area’s top restaurants, and among the highest rated in Zagat’s Guide. (The year we went, it ranked #1 in Romantic Decor, and #3 in Food.) Needless to say, […]

Top JavaScript Books of All-Time

In books, javascript, reviews on 13 February 2008 tagged books, javascript, reviews with 3 comments

5. Pro JavaScript Techniques by John Resig. John’s jQuery library is a thing of absolute beauty—the source is an example of javascript’s utter sexiness. Now, as a whole I found this book a bit disjointed, nevertheless it’s recommend because it attempts to tackle difficult subject matters like closures and event handling, and does so […]

Sell Me Something

In interaction design on 5 February 2008 tagged interaction design, mint.com, sales with 1 comment

…add Customer Retention to the desired and never-ending skillset of a front-end developer.
Mint gets it wrong. Again. Upon deleting my account, they had one last opportunity to woo me and they wasted it. Save for laziness, I have no idea why they’d redirect me to their login page, after all, I JUST DELETED MY ACCOUNT! […]