New iPhone 3GS Unveiled and Confirmed!
During today's Worldwide Developers Conference 2009, Apple unveiled the new iPhone 3GS along with the new MacBook Pro. It's a very exciting news for me considering I've been wanting to get the iPhone for a long time now, but kept hearing about the new hardware coming out during this summer. Finally with an actual release date I can now make the jump from my old Blackberry 8100 Pearl. iPhone 3GS 16GB is priced at ... read more
Facebook Rolled Out a New Friends Page – FAIL?
After a long meeting with my colleagues last night at about 10:35PM, I went on Facebook. As usual, I did a status-update-checking routine on the homepage, scrolled up and down the page some more and finally clicked on the Friends link up top. Then I paused. Instead of finding a list of recent status updates, I was greeted by a brand-new "Find your friends" page. Hmm... I've been a Facebook user for ... read more
Is Wachovia Login Form Usable?
The Redesign Wachovia.com recently updated the design of their homepage. With redesigns, I usually would give it a try for a week or two before putting the final verdict. After all, I'm a designer myself and 100% aware that people generally hate change. However, there is something about this new login form that makes me stop and think before proceeding with what I have to do. ... read more
Design by Committee Video: Hilarious but true
A very clever and funny video depicting the oh-so-common design process that involves a lot of people, a.k.a Design by Committee. Background: Design by Committee usually consists of a designer and a group of people (usually clients) who seemingly do not communicate with each other. This process is usually accompanied by a flurry of additional features that were never mentioned in the requirements gathering phase, and it goes on throughout the life cycle of the design phase. This process usually happens because ... read more