Multi-Year Archive


2010
Jul
Jun
17
Tabbed Browsing and Search Behavior
“The latest Mozilla TestPilot study to publish data is the Tab Switch Study evolving the ...”
Mar
Jan
2009
“Going Long”
Dec
15
Encouraging Paper Prototyping in the Jetpack Learning Challenge
“We're off and running in the Jetpack Learning Challenge from Mozilla Education & the MacArthur ...”
Oct
26
Crafting Powerful Learning Experiences in the Browser
“I'm very excited to be participating in the Mozilla Education JetPack/AddOn Design Challenge as an ...”
18
Sep
Aug
22
16
Updated Ubiquity Commands including Places
“I've updated my Ubiquity (an experimental command line for firefox) commands to Parser generation 2, ...”
05
Jul
Jun
30
Observations on the Tab Design Challenge
“I've been making blog drafts for weeks now on the Mozilla Labs "Reinventing Tabs" Design ...”
15
11
Mar
Feb
Jan
2008
“Surf's Up”
Dec
Nov
16
Reading SciFi on the iPhone
“The application I use the most on the iPhone is Stanza, a book reader with ...”
13
The Enterprise Command Line
“Back in the mid to late 90s, a slew of business was done porting "green ...”
1 comments
Oct
29
20
Ubiquity at BarCamp Atlanta
“It's been a quiet few months on SurfMind as I transition to a UX role ...”
Aug
Jul
27
Multi-Touch versus the Mouse
“Designing richly interactive UI controls for the iPhone and the web is an interesting challenge ...”
26
Podcasting with the iPhone 2.0
“Following up on my first generation video on how to podcast with the iPhone, here's ...”
Jun
24
Tag Clouds and the SearchMe Widget
“There's been a lot of good research on tag clouds lately -- from usage evaluation ...”
16
15
Search and Places (version 1)
“Note: Updated from original post for improved accuracy. Made a bit of progress tonight in using ...”
14
Firefox 3 Launch in Atlanta: ParkTavern -- And Screen Goodies
“The Atlanta launch & download record shindig will be at Park Tavern in midtown, at ...”
2 comments
May
28
The PLACES I've Been and the PLACES I'll Go.
“I've been excited about the new history and bookmarks system, Places, in Firefox 3 for ...”
1 comments
Apr
30
26
13
New look, less spam
“The version of wordPress powering this site was massively out of date (v2.0) and I ...”
Mar
Feb
18
15
Extend Firefox Winners: No Thumbnails?
“While last year's extend firefox contest's winners were dominated by features involving thumbnail previews, this ...”
09
Zoom in Firefox 3
“An important aspect of parity, both within the browser space and in the rich internet ...”
2 comments
2007
“Back in the ATL”
Dec
24
A Holiday Gift: A New Way to Look at Your Website
“We've just released an AIR-based browser that simulates human vision, to provide insights into your ...”
1 comments
Nov
27
Musings on Tabs & Browsing: Supporting Selection
“ Note: these musings are somewhat orthogonal to the recent dialogue at humanized.com on tab overflow. ...”
1 comments
11
09
FLOSS Heuristic Review @ Firefox
“It's amazing how many of the ideas talked about at the recent FLOSS heuristic review ...”
2 comments
07
Selective Preservation: How do You Rank Browser History?
“I caught the inevitable history data growth work items from Burning Edge last night: Fixed: 332748 ...”
3 comments
Oct
31
24
Search is Stateless
“In a fairly weird twist of research funding, a market research firm and AutoByTel have ...”
12
Hacking Firefox @ BarCampAtlanta
“BarCamp Atlanta this weekend! I'm planning up a demo of creating a firefox extension, getting ...”
3 comments
Sep
Aug
29
14
04
Revisitation Frequency Confirmed at SIGIR
“One of my favorite works at SIGIR was Information Re-Retrieval: Repeat Queries in Yahoo’s ...”
1 comments
Jul
25
20
The IPhone Experience
“There's a nice review of some design principles at work in the slideshare "7 User ...”
Jun
May
26
23
No more modal search! Down with modal search!
“Nice, Technorati drops modal search as well.Uh, Yahoo, MSN, ya listening?”
16
11
WWW 2007 Papers Up
“Wow, how many years have I blogged this? Gotta love that the WWW conference ...”
01
Apr
21
The GLive "River of News" Blog Reader
“Google's new feed API inspired me to create a little Windows Live & Google mashup.  ...”
13
10
Mar
29
Coming to San Francisco: Web 2.0 Expo
“I'll be in SF in two weeks for the Web 2.0 expo.  See my talk ...”
A Zooming UI for Browsing from Live Labs and Minimo 0.2
“The good folks at Microsoft's Live Labs finally shipped!  I got a peek at some ...”
25
Is Ten Results the Wrong Number?
“I discussed this with Jakob Nielsen at CHI last year, and Lou Rosenfield mentioned it ...”
1 comments
24
20
05
Feb
13
On SEO Radio
“Catch my interview on SEO Radio at Noon today EST. I'll update this post ...”
11
10
Feedback and Firefox: Improving Hendrix
“A serious problem with bugzilla for Firefox/Mozilla when I exited the community in 2004 was ...”
03
02
Mouse Gestures Lite -- via userChrome.js
“Since 2001, the optimoz gestures project has evolved dramatically and spurred a set of very ...”
Jan
31
03
Putting MochiKit to the Test: The Conversion Funnel
“I've been on an extended vacation back east and took some time to get my ...”
2006
“The Mothership”
Oct
14
Aptana, the Web IDE, rocks!
“A javascript focused IDE. Bonus feature is direct FTP editing. I'm in love. Based on Eclipse, ...”
12
The Best (Ranked) of Firefox Blogs: Get Your OPML Here!
“Over on my MSDN blog I've written about my first public hack in *the two ...”
11
The action's over there...
“at my BORG based blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/andyed”
May
10
Blogging Around the Bubble: Retrospective Highlights from '99 to '02
“ Here's a little retrospective from my blogging archives.This is post-Frontier as a ...”
Apr
22
09
Catching up...
“From the dhtml spotting, another good link on a related topic, a scrolling checkbox list ...”
08
DHTML Spotting
“It's been a long while since I posted a DHTML spotting. There was a ...”
Feb
20
18
Watching Bill on Channel 9: What took you so long?
“Watching Bill Gate's latest channel 9 appearance, alas it's not the gonzo Scoble, but a ...”
Jan
14
50 milliseconds and your home page
“I've often said "200 milliseconds is a long time (in your brain)" in explaining my ...”
1 comments
03
Analog Search: Retrieval by image (delta)
“The web buzz on retrievr, a search system in which you draw your query, recalls ...”
02
Wordpress.root
“A test post with the OPML Editor.  Indentation produces what type of markup?  Let's see. Ack, it's a ...”
01
Defunking the NewsRiver HTML
“I started web publishing with Frontier, capitalizing on the verdant ecosystem of userTalk/object db modules ...”
1 comments
2005
“Pacific NW”
Nov
22
The Accretion of Tiny Hacks
“I've enjoyed several podcasts of late: Alex Barnett & Kevin Burton on RSS reading Web 2.0 from ...”
19
Menu Mousing Research Content Updated
“I've linked to the full text of my thesis from the menu mousing visualization page. ...”
08
Generativity and ICCs
“The augmenting human intellect discussion at seattle mind camp was reinvigorating for me. The ...”
06
Attention.xml at MindCamp
“Ahh, how old is new again. With sessions on "augmenting human intellect" and annotation, ...”
Oct
Sep
06
One year at Microsoft
“Retro I came to Seattle to start work at MSN Search 1 year ago. It's ...”
Aug
28
PodCast Client with Blog This
“I've listened to some really great podcasts lately, but the lackluster experiences are more frequent. ...”
15
Today's del.icio.us bookmarks
“Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user andyed on 2005-08-15 rawlinson - us ...”
07
Fold n' Drop Page
“Brilliant. Enabling individual properties of real world objects can facilitate basic interactions: Fold n' ...”
06
Blueground Undergrass
“Liven up your weekend... Top Level > Audio > Live ...”
Jul
31
The Evolution of the Browser Toolbar, IE7 Style
“Flickr covers the look and feel of IE7 in great detail. Back and Forward get an ...”
27
Designating Permalinks
“Node type: designate permalinks. [[Post destroyed by spam infiltration]]”
26
Recent Bookmarks
“Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user andyed on 2005-07-26 Monday, July 25, ...”
Memex @ Slashdot
“From Emergic, Slashdot does the Memex. Highlights of the slashdot fray: a dive into the world ...”
25
Blog Calendars are Bad Hypertext
“Clickity clickity click. Reading blogs by browsing from the calendar UI is hideously bad ...”
24
Tablet PC: Paradigm One
“So I promised some commentary on the Tablet PC that is now a frequent companion. ...”
Recent Bookmarks
“Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user andyed on 2005-07-24 White.Steve.Blog : Avalon ...”
SharpMT compatible with Wordpress
“Just a test. I'm getting some exceptions invoking menu items by mouse (keybd works). ...”
Pushing the back button on my blog
“It's been a while eh? Nifty new wordpress install here. We'll see how ...”
Apr
14
Interaction Hijinx & Ajax Implementation
“The CHI conference was good -- gotta love any venue that publishes multiple papers on ...”
Mar
17
The Dock Does it All Wrong
“I've said it before but the recent googlex buzz and subsquent dock fandom brings another ...”
Feb
14
CHI 2005
“I'll be attending CHI this year and participating in a workshop on integrating approaches to ...”
Jan
19
Settling for Just-Good-Enough
“While the recent move across multiple industry players to support rel="no-follow" on links is a ...”
13
Moving Forward with Folksonomies
“I've built 3 tagging systems in the last year akin to del.icio.us or more aptly ...”
1 comments
2004
“Masters (redux)”
Dec
12
Expressive Typography in UI
“Expressive typography has made it's way into the upper echelon of web UI: The weighted ...”
Nov
28
Concentration hampers simple tasks
“news@nature.com - Concentration hampers simple tasks ”
24
NIMIQ vs Doppler: Windows Audio Blog Aggregation
“Scoble pointed to Doppler for managing podcasts. Their size and the need to move ...”
1 comments
20
09
Doron nailed it...
“doron's blaahg: Improved Navigation is a Benefit, Tabbed Browsing is A Feature ”
08
Hypermedia Visual Collage
“The combinformation work and this nifty bit of flash offer glimpses of a rich living ...”
07
Visualisation Patterns
“Yum: Visualisation Patterns. I'd like to see additions of the perspective wall... [[Post destroyed by spam]] ”
04
WinHEC 2004 Longhorn Prototypes Gallery
“winsupersite offers up an intriguing set of major paradigm shifts for tablet pc computing: ...”
01
blogathyant: Feed reading belongs in the browser
“blogathyant: Feed reading belongs in the browser argues that consuming blogs is best done in ...”
1 comments
Oct
31
Audio Aggregator
“I'd tracked the Internet Archives (archive.org) entrance into music archival some time ago, grateful that ...”
19
Revenge of the Stack: Smartphone Multi-tasking
“So I read bloglines mobile during the 30 minute bus ride to the *mothership* this ...”
18
13
CogPsy spotting
“Sam Ruby: Left Right Conflict showcases a concise demo of the stroop effect. This ...”
10
Farewell Mozilla Code: Live long and prosper
“So, it's time I came out of the "closet". I'm several weeks into a ...”
MSN Search: Tech Preview II Firefox Plugin
“ function addTP2() { try { window.sidebar.addSearchEngine( "http://www.surfmind.com/musings/gems/msn.src", ...”
Sep
27
optimoz: gestures 1.0
“One point oh! mozdev.org - optimoz: gestures. Nice work Jens! ”
The Zooming User Interface
“The Zooming User Interface: 'ZUI's are a radical departure from the most common "desktop" metaphor ...”
3 comments
25
When one facet is not enough
“del.icio.us/tag/xp is a great example of an ambiguous term -- eXtreme programming and the Windows ...”
09
Eyetrack III
“Well received in the blog world, Eyetrack III offers a generalized search path for homepages, ...”
01
Interface users appreciate power
“A must read from Ben Bederson: ACM Ubiquity - Interfaces for Staying in the Flow. The ...”
Aug
31
Beauty of Usenet
“LL points to this discussion of the thorny problem of working with hierarchies and graphs ...”
25
Design with Community
“The Mozilla project has always struggled with product design. For years, "4xp", or Netscape ...”
:: combinFormation ::
“A rare mix of top notch computer science and artistic expression, :: combinFormation :: is ...”
24
Sliding For Text Input
“In a working memory study back in the 90s, I used visual block sequences in ...”
23
HCI Inspiration from the Source
Linking Posts Together
“alex wright covers recent IA blog thoughts on bookmarky systems like del.ico.us that provide bottom-up ...”
11
xulmaker updated
“It's just a maintenance release to keep up with the latest changes. A lot ...”
1 comments
08
Preference wording fun for Forumzilla
“Bug 6984 - Single Folder vs Feed Folders Preference Wording ”
1 comments
04
Enhanced History Manager
“Getting us back to 4xp with Firefox with the restoration of the history manager ”
03
Googlebar Update
“Googlebar is moving rapidly these days, but alas, update.mozilla.org isn't a good way to keep ...”
RIAs in DHTML?
“Micah spots a slightly aging blog-distributed discussion on the current status quo for over-achiever DHTMLers ...”
02
Freehand instead of Viso
“Maybe not for all tasks, but I've successfully laid out a few sites in Freehand. ...”
01
Exploring Information Navigation Strategies with a Computational Model (ResearchIndex)
“Exploring Information Navigation Strategies with a Computational Model (ResearchIndex): A nice starting point for work ...”
andy edmonds - ResearchIndex document query
“Nice! Google alert let me know I've got a page in CiteSeer. A citeseer query ...”
Jul
30
Comments on "Open source usability is a technical problem we can solve on our own"
“Ok/Cancel takes on the recent newsforge OSS diatribe:OK/Cancel: OSS S.O.S. - How HCI Killed Open ...”
26
ClearType InDepth
“Channel 9 has indepth coverage of the "sub-pixel font rendering" technology ClearType that I've spent ...”
Navigation Patterns: How often do we use back?
“Older data had suggested up to 40%. A new work, cited below, finds 25% ...”
23
KoalaRainbow MT BlogViz
“A very nice use of server side graphic generation to visualize a host of attributes ...”
21
Announcing: Wikalong - MozillaZine Forums
“Brilliant. Using a wiki as a annotation store for page level comments. Announcing: ...”
18
Googlebar Update
“Googlebar is moving along rapidly these days, but alas, update.mozilla.org is not a good way ...”
17
Best of the Blog
“08/00 Customization Drawbacks 12/00 Fish-eye Craigslist (IE) 07/01 Smart webserver log analysis 03/02 Redefining the Tree Widget 03/03 Junkie: ...”
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