Writing Apps

Product Hunt recently had a list of writing apps that I found to be pretty interesting. There are a few trends that seem to be driving the future of writing (and publishing) on the web. They are AI and command line UI.  Artificial Intelligence is being used to help us...

Which platform?

So you’ve decided to build an app. You’ve identified the problem you want to solve, and the pool of people who will be your customers. Now comes the question of which platform to build it on. Should you build a responsive web app? An android app? An iPhone...

Uber’s UX Fail.

Humans are lazy. We don’t like to wait, and we don’t like to repeat the same actions over and over. Last week I was taking an Uber home and wanted to get a fare estimate, and their UX pissed me off. I had to keep toggling back and forth to compare fares between the...

Link Structure

You might not have noticed, but last week I changed the link structure of my blog. Previously the link to this post would have been: brightful.ly/2013/03/05/link-structure/ Now the link structure is such that the post is brightful.ly/link-structure/ Its simpler,...