Davin's blog

Month: August 2004

  • Beauty of a web site

    Tractinsky, N., Katz, A.S., and Ikar, D.

  • I’ve got friends in low places . . .

    Hey, I’ve got a question again. How do we feel about the “it could be worse” gospel? I think I have sufficiently recovered from the “Prosperity” gospel (you know, follow Christ and all will be well and you’ll get to drive a mercedes) so now I’m struggling with the “it could be worse” gospel. You…

  • Cutie-Patootie

    We went to the Ingham County Fair. Hot. Blasted Hot. But we had fun. More pics coming soon (soon as I figure out how to size ’em and junk. Ha.)

  • Fitt’s Law Applied to the Web

    Fitt’s Law Applied to the Web by Scott Berkun, Microsoft Corporation. The basic idea in Fitts’s Law is that any time a person uses a mouse to move the mouse pointer, certain characteristics of objects on the screen make them easy or hard to click on. The farther the person has to move the mouse…

  • FUNNY: Weapons of Mass Destruction

    Go to Google.com, type “weapons of mass destruction” into the search field, and click the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button. Note, though, don’t click the link about the t-shirt at the bottom of the page. I got pop-ups about online gambling.

  • Thinking about affordances & convention in web design

    I wrote the following intending to include it in an email newsletter I send out. I had Chey read it and it seems the word “affordance” used in this way is a bit too esoteric. I’ve started trying to rewrite it, starting from the user-testing paragraph, but I’m having trouble writing about this concept without…