Designing for Inaccuracy?
I know it might come across as crazy, but I think there’s something to be said about designing for inaccuracy. And, of course, someone else has already probably thought of this and there’s a fancy (or simple) name for it.  That’s okay; it’s on my mind and I’d like to rattle it out. The Back Story The day before Thanksgiving, the family was all loaded-up into the (sigh) minivan and as I started backing out of the driveway, my wife punched the magical button on the GPS that would get the trip routing started. We both looked at the estimated time of arrival and took deep sighs, knowing that we were in for a long trip with

IDEA09 Debts of Gratitude
I’m woefully behind on this, but it’s no less important that the people who propped-up the IDEA Conference experience get recognized. Certainly, as chair of the 2009 IDEA Conference, there’s a bit of a light shone directly on me, but the reality is that there’s no way on earth that any conference could–or should, at least–be pulled off by a single person. Without much more preamble, these fine folks let me lead and chose to follow–often challenging and questioning steps along the way, but always supporting the event and the community it is intended for. I’m humbled to have been so fortunate to get to work with each of t

Solving the “Repeat Email Address” Form Issue. Maybe.
One of the mailing lists that I’m on had a question posed today about using “Repeat Email Address” in form validation. I actually cringed as I typed that just now–that particular part of form validation is pretty annoying (to me, at least). I find it amusing that shift-tab, copy, tab, paste as a method for handling doesn’t cross anyone’s mind when creating these types of “validations” in forms. There were a number of responses to the thread, but Steve Krug (yeah, that Steve Krug) put out the notion that he suspects most of the email address typos may originate in hasty typing, and they end up getting submitted because the user