Our newest creation: The Userability Podcast. Our listeners call into to ask Jared Spool and Robert Hoekman, Jr. their most vexing design questions. This week: Rob Fay asks about exploring design alternatives.

Have a design question you’re dying to get an answer to? Well, look no further. (For the answer, that is.) Robert Hoekman, world famous author of Designing the Obvious and Designing the Moment, and I, Jared M. Spool, a person who co-authored a book in 1996 that you’ve probably never seen, are joining forces to [...]

This time, we spot an embiggen over at macenstien.com (Click to Embiggen):

Randall Monroe’s XKCD is probably my favorite comic strip. Here’s one of the latest ones: (Of course, the flow charting portion of Dan Brown’s Communicating Design: Essential Deliverables for Highly Effective Design Teams session at the UIE Web App Summit will have a lot more depth to it.)

This is my nomination for the Most Amusing Error Messages of the Day award:

I believe this is the first song that has ever included “The Scent of Information” and “Ruby on Rails” in the lyrics: Eddy Boston’s Internet Wasteland.

At UIE, we do few things like everyone else. Everyone else puts up a sign saying how they don’t want solicitors to randomly walk into their offices and sell them stuff. But not us. We like solicitors. In fact, we tell them so in a sign we’ve put outside our offices: Here’s what the sign [...]

Ashley McKee details a recent experience she had with the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s new Charlie Card system, and wants to hear your opinion on the system’s user interface.

Have your expectations of something ever been so low that they have nowhere to go but up? While I was on my recent trip in Europe, I stopped at a rest area in Germany and found this nifty toilet in the bathroom. It didn’t look like much at first, but then I noticed the blue [...]

Could you see your organization putting up messages like this?