Bokardo - Social Design by Joshua Porter

Late last week a service called Twply tricked over eight hundred Twitter users to give over their sign-up credentials using deceitful design. Here’s how they did it.
The Twply story is a lesson in...

In response to yesterday’s post, Garrett Dimon, creator of the bug and issue tracker Sifter, shot me an email explaining his reasons for designing in public. Garrett built Sifter basically in the p...

I really like the design decisions blog posts at 37signals. A recent example: Design Decisions: Saying more in less space on the new Highrise site, in which a designer (in this case Jason) discusse...

Some modest suggestions for improving the Friendfeed interface
Friendfeed is getting a lot of chatter in the blogosphere about what they should do with their service. I’m sure I don’t know the bigg...

I recently finished Outliers: The Story of Success, the latest book by Malcolm Gladwell. I became a fan of Gladwell, as many people have, from reading his first book: The Tipping Point. More any ot...

Several folks have noticed I’m using a larger font size on bokardo now…here’s why.
In short, the text is easier to read now. Not just the body text, but the text in all columns. The inspiration fo...

Just a quick update on the various speaking events I’ve got coming up.
UIE Virtual Seminar: Designing for Sign Up
This thursday, December 9, I’ll be giving a UIE Virtual Seminar on Designing for S...

Are we hypocrites when it comes to technology? Or are we merely suffering from the tyranny of context?
My wife and I are currently staying at an amazing farmhouse built in 1745 along the Merrimac R...

One of my favorite examples of sign-up is from Tripit.com. They have a unique way of signing you up for the service. Instead of filling out a form to sign up, which is the norm, you simply forward ...

An interesting bit came across my twitterstream the other day:
Gall’s Law
“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition...