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I'm M. Jackson Wilkinson, a technologist, designer, speaker, educator, and writer in San Francisco. I recently moved from Washington, DC to work as a Senior Product Designer at LinkedIn, and am happy to take your feedback. I'm from Philadelphia, went to Bowdoin College in Maine, root for the Phillies, and love to sing.
John Siracusa looks at his reviews of the OS X preview releases and the first 10.0 release.
What’s most amazing is how gracefully things seem to have improved in those ten years. The old screenshots now look dated and sometimes downright ridiculous, and Siracusa’s evaluations were nothing short of dire in the beginning, but it’s slowly and steadily become the clear market leader.
One of the best things about Apple is their willingness to put something out that might be a bit of a reach, and then to go back and iterate and fill in the gaps. They pay a boatload of attention to making it a great experience in the first place, but they are always willing to acknowledge that improvements can be both subtle and major.
One day, the Nook may be a much more usable, more capable bit of gear. Of course, Amazon and Sony won’t be standing still; 2010 sure will be an interesting year.
Looks like David Pogue wasn’t too impressed, and B&N didn’t spend enough time refining and polishing their product.
As always, John Siracusa’s is as authoritative as they get. At twenty-three pages, the pagination almost needs its own pagination. I just finished reading, and it’s fantastic.
Even if you’re not an Apple user, you should read this review. It has boatloads of interesting information about how to think about operating systems, and you’re almost guaranteed to learn more than just a few useful nuggets.
It’s probably the most interesting tech article I’ve read in months.
I was asked to do a quick little eval of IRS.gov, and the premise was that “everyone thought it sucked.” It looked nasty, yeah, but there was a lot of good stuff going on there. Over at the Viget UX Blog:
So when a taxpayer is at that dreadful time of year, filing tax returns, finding out that freelance gig comes at a high price in April, or wondering why her employer’s automatic withholdings didn’t cover the load this year, it’s going to be incredibly difficult for that user to say that IRS.gov is anything other than Beelzebub’s homepage. Any slight flaw becomes an enormous headache and a source of angst and confusion.
Can you imagine a world where the overwhelming majority of people actually like the IRS homepage? It’d take more than an act of Congress…
I got an Ooma, don’t have a landline, don’t pay any phone bills, and I’m loving it.