David Weiss

A few tweets ago, (I always feel weird referring to Twitter in the past tense) I posted : Why are the unintelligent or uninformed so arrogan...

You don't have to understand calculus to appreciate this entertaining story : A teacher, trying to explain what a theory is, asked this ...

Business Week's recent cover story on Lenovo's new ThinkPad X300 laptop caught my attention. Can you imagine spending 2 years worki...

Today at 3:30 p.m. PDT, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner will rollout for the world to see. You can view the live webcast at www.boeing.com or wat...

When Apple announced that the "sweet" iPhone Software Development Kit was going to be AJAX and "Web 2.0 stuff", most dev...

You may have heard the saying, "It's the journey, not the destination." I like this saying, but I have never applied it to use...

Core 77 , one of my favorite design blogs, links to Edwin Tofslie's visual time line of Apple products from 1976 to the present day. Ve...

Before we knew the iPhone was real, the common wisdom was that in order for Apple to make the experience something of acceptable quality, th...

I spent some time today playing with the iPhone and there's one interaction I just love. It's that when you scroll to the edge of th...

This week Apple has released a 20 minute guided tour of the iPhone that shows in great detail the new user interface. You can download the h...

Yesterday, Apple released their own Safari 3.0 web browser for Windows XP and Windows Vista. Amid the security and performance comparisons...

I was just skimming through the Windows Vista User Experience Guidelines and while in the Design Principles section I came upon this title,...

John Gruber writing on Apple's choice of AAC as the DRM-free format sold on iTunes, makes this interesting comparison: Apple’s use of A...

Over at The Unofficial Apple Weblog , Scott McNulty has a review of Google Desktop for the Mac version 1.0. If QuickSilver were not enough,...

One of my favorite bloggers, Scott Stevenson , recently wrote about a subject near and dear to my heart, namely, some Simple Truths About Cr...

Don Norman has published a wonderful excerpt from his next book "The Design of Future Things" set to publish in October 2007. Th...

I was just listening to the most recent Security Now Podcast episode 83 wherein Steve Gibson goes to pains to describe what it takes on Wi...

The following quote is from a long article on Toyota in the New York Times : Improving efficiency in the factory, though, doesn’t necessaril...

I just found out that today is World Usability Day , and I couldn't help from laughing at the poster. Yeah, usability really matters. En...

“Don’t worry about other people stealing your ideas. If you’re ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.” - Howard ...