All Usability Posts

The following are all my older posts on usability, in reverse chronological order. I have gathered them here, since the older ones tend to 'drop off' the automatically generated recent usability posts search results, which can be found here.

• Apple Time Machine backups should not delete oldest, thin to monthly when space becomes short August 2012
• Distracted driving and cellphones: Technological solutions to avoid overreactive bans - Feb 2012
• Give downloadable files more meaningful names - Nov 2011
• Mac OS Lion irritants that Apple should fix - Sept 2011
• Hardware with usability problems: Dyson Airblade hand dryer - Sept 2011
• Stores should have apps to locate products on their shelves - Aug 2011
• Google dramatically lowers usefulness of Google Groups: One can no longer add members directly
• My predictions for future smartphone technology
• Adapting to Mac OS X Lion 4: Usability of the new features
• Adapting to Mac OS X Lion 1: Reasons why 'natural' two-finger scrolling may be inferior
• Usability Blooper: Microsoft Excel claims it can't find things when multiple cells are selected
• Apple's growing penchant for not supporting customers by changing services too radically
• Usability improvements that I have requested in my blog: Some results
• Usability Blooper: The operation can't be completed in Mac OS X copying
• Live Blog from ICSE: Cool ideas
• Usability Blooper: PIN point of sale terminals ridiculously slow
• VoteCompass: A fabulous site to help understand your political position vs the parties
• Backup in Mac OS: How I do it and Suggestions for Time Machine Improvements
• Automatic vibrate and loud mode calendar tagging: A phone feature that should be universal
• In trepidation of the zero-button iOS device
• Thoughts on Tethering: How to keep and improve its flexibllity and usefulness
• Mac App Store - A good idea with some rough edges
• Four iOS mapping applications
• Getting rid of modal dialogs from iPhone Calendar app
• Usability Blooper: Alarms that go off just before midnight
• Three gestures I'd like to see added to iOS
• Usability Blooper: iCal inescapable dialog - You’re about to send an invitation
• Hardware buttons on mobile devices: Which ones should be standard?
• The ruination of the BBC website: Category-clutter and unidentified auto-play RSS video
• Reading text on iOS: Instapaper tilt scrolling wins