Tag: usability
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Content design and education
A couple friends of mine work as teachers here in Denver (by the way, we made it to Denver!) and we recently started talking about design in education. One friend told me he proposed some design standards for his fellow teachers. The problem he was trying to solve was relatively simple: Each teacher makes a…
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GitHub for Mac: A Usability Review
Update: This post is out of date. The new GitHub Desktop App has major improvements to many of the usability problems addressed here. The GitHub For Mac app described below is no longer distributed. Since first learning how to use Git a couple years ago I’ve been pretty convinced that using the command line is…
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Dark Pattern Alert: Forced continuity at Blue Apron
This post is likely very out of date. I’ve been told Blue Apron has made improvements to their account closure process. This post is an historical representation of how they handled user requests in 2014. A friend of ours gave us an awesome wedding gift: a week of free meals from Blue Apron. We’d recently…