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Previous/Next and Back/Next pagination links considered harmful

One last UI nitpick I’ve been meaning to write down for ages, and it goes like this:

You’re viewing recent photos/posts on a website and you want to read more, so you click the button at the bottom to give you a few more older entries
You view those photos/posts then scroll down to get more
Your choices [...]


This is also broken: Hilton Hotels login

Continuing on with the “Flash ads should never obscure content or functionality on a website” theme, today I noticed I couldn’t log into my Hilton Hotel account because of some stupid ad for an olympics panda bear.
Here is me trying to login (click on the screenshot to see the .mov screen capture).

The sound you [...]


Playstation 3: complete failure for casual gaming

The other day this thought popped into my head and since several people asked, I wanted to expound on my original point.
First off, let me just say I’m a casual gamer — for the past seven years I’ve usually owned one console game system and I play it about once a week for a [...]


Vista, the five year old’s OS

I got a Mac Pro yesterday and the first thing I wanted to do after it was setup was to install Windows in Parallels, so I could test out my sites in IE/Win. I started on windows over ten years ago and only started migrating to the mac in 2002. About six months ago I [...]


Misadventures in Copyright

Last year I moved into a new house with a big backyard, but the yard faces directly south, so it bakes in the summertime. I decided to find a local architect to help build a small shade patio off the back, and in the process I learned a lot about how far-reaching copyright law [...]