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Product design use and usability, designs new and old, inspired and unspired. The little things that matter.

Piggy Bank as Parental Password Safe

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Product design is difficult enough for one user at a time, but when products are meant to mediate between two  people, it gets even more c...

Stake: The Swiss Army Knife of Grilling

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It's summer, and that means you'll frequently find me behind a grill.  And as much as I usually hate multipurpose-gadgety cooking ...

MagSafe 2 Connector: No longer a USB magnet...

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Apple released their latest MacBook Pro laptops recently - and there's a lot to love (Retina display, all-flash architecture, drop-de...

Cursors on Touchscreens, Done Right!

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Since the mass shift to touchscreen interfaces, buttons are suddenly a little less useful - yes, more "unpressable" - since ever...

If You Build a Better Ice Cream Scoop...

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It may be a surprise to many blog readers, but there's still room for innovation in non-digital  products, too!  Amco helps us remem...

Apple's Flipping Logo

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Apple used to place its logo on its laptops so that it's right-side up when the user looks at the closed laptop, but upside when open ...
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Icons Stuck in the Past

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Icons are handy little things: they make efficient use of display real estate, provide a quickly-identifiable visual cue to the user, and ...
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