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Tips for Improving Greenbox’s Energy Portal
A recent SmartGridNews.com article praised Greenbox Technology for “deliver[ing] understanding to utility customers.” While Greenbox does provide useful functionality that differentiates it from its...
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Flipboard: A tale of tough choices
I recently had a discussion with Mike McCue, the CEO of Flipboard, on how he and his team managed to get things so right with the Flipboard design. In particular, I was interested in how they were...
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Forgot Your Password?
If your password is “password,” you’re not alone. Security analyst Mark Burnett recently harvested a list of publicly available passwords, and 4.7% of them are, yes, “password.” The picture doesn’t get...
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How Apple Broke Call Waiting in iOS 7
I recently upgraded my iPhone to the new 5S and downloaded iOS7. I’m enjoying some of the changes (finally, automatic app updates!). But the other day, while driving to work, I experienced one design...
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Passwords are Broken. What’s Next?
A few weeks ago, I wrote about why we need to stop blaming users for choosing dumb passwords: we’ve designed a system that’s basically impossible to use “correctly.” It’s not all doom and gloom for...
View Article6 Reasons Users Hate Your New Feature
You spend months on a new feature for your existing product: researching it, designing and building it, launching it. Finally, it’s out in the world, and you sit back and wait for all those glowing...
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Ditch the Rainbows
Color is becoming more important than ever. With the increasing popularity of flat design, designers are less able to rely on 3D buttons, drop shadows, and other crutches that used to make...
View ArticleInnovative Health Technology Launches at Health 2.0, User Experience Still...
Our favorite solutions from this year’s Health 2.0 conference Launch session all covered very different angles of the healthcare industry. The following solutions, which launched at Health 2.0, are...
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Top 10 Design Thinking FAQs
Design thinking and Sliced Bread go back about 14 years. But, for the last five, I’ve been teaching design thinking at the Stanford d.school and more recently, in the Computer Science department. The...
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2 minute guide to creating the perfect dashboard
At Sliced Bread we have seen and designed A LOT of dashboards. Dashboards for CRM, energy, IT, farming, social — you name it. Unfortunately, most dashboards we see out there fail the snooze test. They...
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