Simple: Getting users to pick strong, memorable passwords
Simple (a.k.a. Bank Simple) is doing a hell of a job with their password strength indicator. Here’s a sneak peak into their interface. Thanks to Ryan Snyder for getting me a super early invite.
Chief eXperience Officer at Mozilla in 2012
Yes, this is a post about Mozilla, but you can generalize to any open-source software project. At every conference I hear the same refrain, “Why is design so hard in open source?” It’s so hard because *drumroll please* it’s not made a priority. None of the top decision-makers are designers. Period. The End. You...
Web typography: hyphenation & justification
Post in collaboration with Bram Pitoyo, Digital Design Strategist & Typographer at Wieden+Kennedy. Firefox joined Safari in supporting hyphenation. Despite CSS coming out 14 years ago in 1996, we’re just now getting some of the fine-grained controls necessary for beautiful typography. Details of the proposed spec at Mozilla Developer Network. -webkit-hyphens: auto; -moz-hyphens: auto; hyphens:...
Three Things You Don’t Know About Mozilla
Even though I’d been using Firefox for a half a dozen years and have been working in tech for a decade, there was a lot I didn’t know about Mozilla until recently. Judging from the questions I’ve been fielding since I accepted the position, you don’t know either. Mozilla is a non-profit. Unlike Google and...
Inked with Mozilla
Hooray! I just inked a contract with Mozilla to come on as a full-time UX Designer. I’ll be working on external stuff like campaign sites and internal tools like crash reporter. I start June 13th. The whole 35 person Web UX team is flying up to Portland the week after to meet me. Ok, not...
