This was actually surprisingly difficult for me to figure out since there is basically no discoverability hints anywhere, and I literally found it by accident. In the Dropbox app for iPad, if you open a Word or other Office document, there is a little button in the lower right hand corner for viewing the document […]
Tag Archives: usability
Peet’s Coffee Packaging UX
As a nice perk, the company at which I am currently employed provides complimentary Peet’s coffee. While this a very nice daily benefit, and is entirely welcome, there seems to have arisen a fundamental usability problem. This morning I just made the observation that, as far as I can tell, every coffee station here at […]
HP printer driver gets subtle usability upgrade
I just noticed when printing up a document today that my [Windows] HP printer drivers must have been upgraded recently. As a result, the Printing Preferences dialog that used to have an entry entitled “Default Printing” (or something to that effect) now reads “General Everyday Printing,” which, while a little confusing in itself, is a […]
ASP.NET Forum Tags: Semicolons as Separators?
Ummm… OK I know Microsoft is trying to give the illusion of being user friendly and all, but when the delimiter for tags that categorize a post on the ASP.NET developer forums, they chose semicolons. Is it just me or is that a ludicrous choice? Why not a space (my preference – a la delicious) […]