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Don’t call me junior.

Posted in Misc by justin on the March 13th, 2006

JavaScript isn’t scary.

Pet peeve: People who dismiss HTML/CSS/JavaScript as some kind of “junior” programmer. Um, guys, if we didn’t have that stuff, there really wouldn’t be a web.

Fancy backend or no, the user doesn’t care. To the user, the interface IS the application.

Off to SxSW

Posted in Tech by justin on the March 9th, 2006

I’m off to geek out at SxSW Interactive 2006. If you’re there too and you wanna grab a burger or a beer, holler.

Complexity causes 50% of returns

Posted in Innovation by justin on the March 6th, 2006

A recent Reuters article reports on a study that says complexity of the product causes 50% of product returns.

Something to think about before you add that “one nice little feature”. What you’re really adding is complexity and there’s a usability cost for that. Does the benefit (to your users, not you) outweigh the cost?