Multi-credentialing

John Maeda of RISD has a riff about the future of college credentials, including the notion of an automated ‘degree’, which is generated by a machine based on the sum your achievements...

Progress bars cannot be accurate

We all see progress bars and some of us even implement them. And we’ve all seen how hilariously wrong they can be...

Your site doesn’t need a novel progress indicator

There’s been healthy talk about progress indicators in the age of ajax. In our will-to-design I think some things are being missed...

Language and social signaling

I like language. I came to it causally at first, and more formally of late...

1.6% of what?

The NSA has published a paper claiming that it “touches” only 1.6% of Internet traffic...

Incidence of compulsion

This is an encouraging story about Google exploring the ability to encrypt ‘sitting files’ in their Google Drive product...

Epistemology and human factors: deal with ‘em

This study that Google conducted to find predictors for success in their hiring process is very interesting...

OCD is id, high standards are ego

As programmers, we have a powerful tool that we deploy often: OCD...

A few thoughts on flat

I played with iOS7 today for a bit and discussed the flat design with a couple of Stack’ers...

For want of parens in Ruby

Ruby is beautiful in many ways. The opportunities to create tight, readable code are impressive...