http://blogs.gxs.com/justindz Design, Usability and Good-Looking Services Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:34:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A busy discussion bubbled up in the usability community recently regarding a trip logging app a company developed for the iPhone.  The UI's front screen is quite busy and tons of people rapidly chimed in to criticize the design on Flickr.  The creator responded by pointing out that the design, ... http://blogs.gxs.com/justindz/2008/07/10/the-busy-effective-screen/ Firefox 3 has been officially unleashed on the web.  If you're a Firefox user, you may have noticed that Mozilla decided to establish the world record for downloads in a 24-hour period.  The Guinness Book of World Records team is still validating the results and looking for cheaters but the ... http://blogs.gxs.com/justindz/2008/06/19/firefox-3-unleashed/ Cloud computing continues to heat up since I blogged about my experiences with Heroku (on-demand Ruby on Rails development using the Amazon Web Services).  If you work in the IT industry, the cloud ware concept may be creeping in to your lexicon, your discussions, your Gartner reports and your Friday ... http://blogs.gxs.com/justindz/2008/06/02/developments-in-the-cloud/ In the very early days of humanity, primitive cave dwellers were forced to use software installed directly on their office computers. They would have to run from cave to cave (often in bad weather, possibly dodging wild animals like the giant sloth) in order to install "updates" whenever the ... http://blogs.gxs.com/justindz/2008/03/24/from-the-desktop-to-the-web-and-back/ No, that's not a typo. I recently received an invitation to Heroku, a Ruby on Rails platform that seems to me to really highlight what's possible in the new age of the web. Heroku is both an on-demand, web-based development environment for building web-based apps in Ruby on ... http://blogs.gxs.com/justindz/2008/02/19/heroku-on-demand-on-demand/ Blame Bryan Larkin for this one. *** GXS Managed Services as a Sonnet Translate and map your business processes.Ramping up your partners around the earth.Connecting to your back-end ERP.How much is your IT sanity worth? Your supply chain should be outsourced to usTo root errors and data problems out,Connect you to TPs, no muss, no fuss,Earn ... http://blogs.gxs.com/justindz/2008/02/07/gxs-managed-services-as-a-sonnet/ Recently, a few colleagues, friends and pseudo-random internet acquaintances have asked for usability/web-related blog recommendations.  Today's post is a link list of blogs that I've found to be either useful, informative or interesting enough to foment some of my own ideas.  My goal is not to deflect anyone for continuing ... http://blogs.gxs.com/justindz/2008/01/21/good-web-uiusability-blogs/ Time to drag out the old usability soap box. It's starting to bend in the middle, and so I might need to buy another year's supply of bulk soap to get a replacement. I spent some time messing around, as a nerd/technologist and child of the Internet revolution, exploring the ... http://blogs.gxs.com/justindz/2007/12/19/how-to-measure-usability-the-way-your-users-do-of-course/ My family had a lovely Thanksgiving dinner with a husband and wife--choir director and friend of my wife, respectively--this past week.  The wife is a professional chef and produced a feast three times the size of what would still be overkill for the eight adults and three small children in ... http://blogs.gxs.com/justindz/2007/11/29/holidays-shopping-online-and-in-store/ I've been using RSS for a very long time. When I found out that there was a convenient way to read the multitudes of websites I wanted to track in one place--and only be bothered when something was new--I was excited. Having used RSS for a long time ... http://blogs.gxs.com/justindz/2007/11/02/newshutch-death-with-dignity/