Making and listening to Designs & Mistakes
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A is for AHREF
It all starts with a link...sometimes.
Hi, I'm Adam. I live around the candy bar that is Silicon Valley, but I've yet to penetrate the creamy, chewy center. Doesn't mean I'm not still trying.
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Hi, I'm Adam. I live around the candy bar that is Silicon Valley, but I've yet to penetrate the creamy, chewy center. Doesn't mean I'm not still trying.
Want more? Check out my activity on Friendfeed
The small things add up
via Joel Spolsky’s post on User Interface Design:
That’s what days were like. A bunch of tiny frustrations, and a bunch of tiny successes. But they added up. Even something which seems like a tiny, inconsequential frustration affects your mood. Your emotions don’t seem to care about the magnitude of the event, only the quality.
UI is important because it affects the feelings, the emotions, and the mood of your users. If the UI is wrong and the user feels like they can’t control your software, they literally won’t be happy and they’ll blame it on your software.
To make people happy, you have to let them feel like they are in control of their environment. To do this, you need to correctly interpret their actions.
I think this photo actually makes me want to code more, via: http://www.axure.com/tour.aspx
Interesting move by Google to get a second pageview out of Wikipedia searches….if you enter a term into the Wikipedia search box and click “Search Wikipedia” you instead are directed to another Google page where Google displays the SERP if you had entered a more specific search term.
new rule: no matter how much neighboring space is available, the egg whites will not be allowed to stay anywhere near the half and half
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My day on the internet begins...
Came across this thread on Friendfeed, and I’d love to hear from others….how does your day on the internet begin?
My answer:
Start of my day: right out of bed turn on the iphone and check weather and stocks, then when I get to my comp check friendfeed, then gmail, and if time permits, google reader.
Other answers I’ve found:
My day on the internet Twitter search
Start of my day Twitter search
WuChess is a new online chess community created by RZA and Chesspark to bring hip-hop chess players together to compete in live games and chat with friends in positive environment. A portion of the revenues will fund scholarships.
“ Business on the Internet is a spectator sport. Arm-chair entrepreneurs abound.
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But I’m getting to be such a good spectator!
Source: http://tinyurl.com/575npv
Second Cheapest Syndrome
Ever order the second cheapest wine on the menu while dining out? Well, one in four diners do (in the UK, at least). In the marketing world, we can define this as a choice set effect with respect to reference pricing - using the cheapest bottle of wine as a standard of comparison against which the other wines are compared.
But did you know that the second cheapest bottle is usually the worst value?
“Restaurant owners will often price the wine they buy cheapest at wholesale as the second cheapest wine on the menu. Why? Because people generally don’t order the cheapest wine and thus often turn to the second cheapest. Price that one higher, and you get a bigger marginal profit. Presto — restauranteur as microeconomist!” (from a reference to an old WSJ article I can’t locate online)
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I just figured out that Walgreens sells Dunkin’ Donuts ground coffee!
Walgreens is an evil place that traps me inside its walls upon entering and makes me purchase other stuff. After finding what I originally came in to buy, I always end up wandering the aisles browsing for anything else I think I need. You know, like toothpaste, maybe some new shampoo (stop and smell of course), a magazine or two, candy for the office, ooh what’s this? Do I need band-aids? What about a zen-like water fountain? While I’m here I might as well get it. Stuff. Crap. More useless products.
But last night’s trip to Walgreens was like hitting the jackpot! Dunkin’ Donuts in California are few and far between so my face lit up when I saw the beautiful orange and pink packaging. :) And even though I didn’t have a donut to go with it, my coffee this morning tasted so good.
* on a side note, you know what I love more than DD? Tim Horton’s. But I would have to go to Canada for that. Unfortunately, that’s not in my near-future travel plans.
** San Francisco tumblr meetup in MAY **
letsmeetinsf wrote:
OK it’s about time the bay area had it’s own Tumblr meetup (we gotta keep up people!) so I’ve taken initiative and created this group tumblelog so people can know tumblr happenings in SF!
I’m thinking the beginning of next month (May) for our first meetup. Happy hour on a Thursday evening? Other ideas? Zeitgeist might work….
If you are in the bay area, REBLOG THIS!! The more the merrier :) And for now (until I get the whole tumblr group thing down), email me at katy [dot] schnoor [@] gmail for an invite.
Excellent! Thanks for organizing this, Katy. I hope it’s not May 1 to 5th as I’ll be in New Orleans for Jazz Fest then.
Reblog this San Franciscans.