You have years of know-how that OS X Lion has decided to break. Reclaim your computer and your sanity!

Don't let your Dashboard become a dumping ground for alerts, notifications, and promotions. Keep your Dashboard lean and action focused with user dismissible notifications, or notification stacks.

Humans shouldn't be forced to enter phone numbers or zip codes in special formats for machines. Instead, machines should take what we give them, and nicely format them for us.

Recently I received a newsletter from Sub-Zero / Wolf. I don't recall ever having signed up. But I'm a foodie, so perhaps I was signed up through a magazine. I'm not in the market for new appliances though. I don't want to receive it. I click the unsubscribe link and came to this web page...

I had to laugh when I logged into a client's Network Solutions account this morning. I was greeted with this friendly notification: customers spoke, and Network Solutions listened. Hmm, I thought. That's a good thing!

I was reading one of my local newspapers online this morning, and was a bit surprised on the copywriting in the sidebar for an article. A "Shocking" online report regarding colon cleansers? Why would the Chicago Tribune be writing online reports...

I had the good chance of meeting up with friends in New York City last weekend; it's been a long time since I've had the chance to explore the town.  I used to live in Long Island, but that was more than 10 years ago. 

Needless to say, I...

"What's your story? And do they believe?" These are Edward Tufte's two main points of emphasis behind information design and presentation. Whether these questions are asked by a user visiting a Web site or by an audience experiencing a...