http://miskeeto.com A Socially-Conscious Web Collective Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:50:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sheila Hoffman and her husband are environmentalists. They’ve been vegans since 1990, eat local foods, drive less than 6,000 miles per year using biodiesel fuel, and use reusable cloth bags for shopping. In 2008, they planned to spend their vacation in New Zealand and Australia. They canceled it when they discovered ... http://miskeeto.com/bytes/one-less-flight/ Toggl.com wants its new users to dive in and start being productive — its primary purpose, in fact, is to help people track time on projects — but what happens to the first-time user once the registration process is complete? He faces the dreaded blank slate. In today's podcast, I ... http://miskeeto.com/bytes/usability-bytes-3-fill-the-blank-slate/ I recently began working with a client whose staff doesn't design together. When they walk into the office in the morning, they plug in their headphones and stare at their screens, hardly speak to each other, and forge product plans by way of short, infrequent conversations about what needs to ... http://miskeeto.com/bytes/designers-do-it-in-groups/ Missing in action this week, due to a persistently crashing screen-recording app, is the Usability Bytes podcast. Stay tuned next week, as we hope to have the issues resolved by then so we can bring you another fine episode of our single-feature, single-takeaway usability critiques. Thanks for your patience! http://miskeeto.com/bytes/missing-in-action-usability-bytes-podcasts/ I wondered quite a bit today what I'd write this blog post. I needed a good story. One with a solid takeaway. Something lots of people could relate to. I had nothing. Then I went to FedEx. Almost every time I walk into a FedEx shipping location, I do something wrong. ... http://miskeeto.com/bytes/solving-the-real-problem/