Josh Evnin

Category: technology

  • All Employees Deserve GREAT Software

    I’m not here to help build mediocre software. Quite the opposite, actually. No one should be subjected to sub-par tools, whether they’re using their software at home, school, work, or somewhere in-between. One of my UCD-minded colleagues pointed out to me last week that often business users are considered a “special” set of users because…

  • The Basis of Web Design = Typography

    First I read this. Then I read the follow up. And finally I found myself at this page, remembering, yet again, that the key to usability is readability. Now, if what you do every day has little to do with usability, design, or typography, you might think this stuff doesn’t really matter to you. If…

  • Pruning Photos

    Football man! Originally uploaded by josh.ev9. Last week I read in an ask.metafilter forum that was discussing photography, and how to improve one’s skills. I’ve always wanted to be a better photographer, so I took a lot of the advice to heart. The most striking piece of advice for me seems to be the hardest…

  • Little Side Projects

    So I read this design document today and I find it quite inspiring. The designer and author, Khoi Vinh, noticed an action writers around him were taking to be more productive. Understanding a bit about technology, he went about designing a software application that would fulfill these writers’ needs, without forcing them to go out…

  • Fantasy Dev League

    I’m sure the ThoughtWorkers will love this:

  • Celebrate World Usability Day 2006

    Wishing you and yours a delightful World Usability Day, from josh.ev9.org. More details, and perhaps an editorial, are forthcoming.

  • Is Chicago the next hotbed of Digital Design?

    Now, I have no hard evidence to prove or disprove my hypothesis, but I get the feeling that there’s a Design tradition brewing in the Chicagoland area. Heck, it may precede my days here. Still, before I came to Chicago, if you were to ask me (and most of my design-minded friends, I’m sure) where…

  • Open Usability

    Well here’s a pretty cool idea. The Open Usability Project connects open source developers with Usability Experts with some time and resources on their hands. Maybe if I get a little beach time* I’ll step it up. * When you’re not assigned to a project at TW, you are put on “The Beach,” and are…

  • Size Matters

    MacBook vs. PowerbookOriginally uploaded by Martin Erpicum. I love my Powerbook. It’s tiny. Teenie Tiny. It’s the old G4 12 incher. The really little one. I am convinced that it’s the perfect size. Lately I’ve been thinking about getting a new Macbook, but only because I’d be able to use it for work because it…

  • A little spike action

    So in my free time over the past few days I’ve been trying my hand at a little Javascript. It’s not too complex most of the time, but still, you gotta start somewhere. Check out my calculator: calculator.html