Archive for December, 2004

Usability, Interface Guidelines and beyond

Thursday, December 30th, 2004

This has been a very interesting year work-wise. The birth of the “product design” team at Novell lead by Anna and sparked by Nat has been one of the eye openers in how I see my work and skills.
Basically what has happened is a transformation from “The guy who draws pretty icons” to a hopefully […]

Asian tragedy

Wednesday, December 29th, 2004

It’s been horrible to watch the news unfold, the death toll constantly increasing.. 12000.. 20000.. 60000.. Over two hundred finnish tourists are still missing, plus all the other nationalities, and the local people.. And looking at the news and pictures, it just starts to look like not many of the missing ones ever return.. […]

Look, no chocolate box picture!

Friday, December 24th, 2004

And hey everybody, like the BBC lady said this week on radio: Despite the risk of potentially offending millions of people, Merry Christmas!

I am not wishing happy new year just yet, since given the current trend, I might even update this site still before the end of the year. Thanks to everyone who […]

Gnome Startup Notifications..

Tuesday, December 7th, 2004

To continue the ever-increasing trend of chatting via Planet Gnome, here’s a comment to Bryan’s nice program startup notification concept.
Bryan, I like the idea a lot, but I think in this case it should not be used when you start up an application from the menus, but instead for the case when you minimize the […]

Random Fact of the Day #1

Thursday, December 2nd, 2004

If you ate a bit too spicy food, you can stop the burning very easily: Eat a little bit of plain salt. It’s incredible how it works..
Now back to work..