Catch the bus or train on time! — Where’s My Transit? is a Web app that I designed for a course in 2018 at the Touro College Graduate School of Technology. This post describes its design process, from identifying the problem to the interactive prototype. How might we catch the bus or train on time? Table of Contents The Problem Research a. Web Research b. Interview c. Survey d. Competitive Analysis e. Personas f. Lessons…

Recipe management made easy! — Recipe Saver is a mobile app that I designed for a course in 2019 at the Touro College Graduate School of Technology. This post describes its design process, from identifying the problem to the interactive prototype. How might we improve cooking through recipe management? Table of Contents The Problem Research a. Competitive Analysis b. User Survey c. User Interviews

An interactive demo of a zoomable Web browser. — This post is part of a series of experiments in redesigning the Web browser. In this design, from 2017, I created an interactive demo of a minimum viable product — an evolution of my previous design for a zoomable browser/OS. Since I created my previous design, the design for my…

Building a zoomable Web operating system. — This post is part of a series of experiments in redesigning the Web browser. This design, from 2012, evolved from the previous ones, and so it answers some of the same questions, but goes even further: How do we solve the ‘too many tabs’ problem? How do we design a…

Merging tab history with the scrollbar. — This post is part of a series of experiments in redesigning the Web browser. In all of these designs, the primary problem I was solving is that of ‘too many tabs’. In this design, from 2011, I was attempting to solve this problem while reducing browser chrome as much possible. …

Replacing Browser chrome with a natural-language interface. — This post is part of a series of experiments in redesigning the Web browser. In this design, from 2011, I was attempting to figure out how to replace browser chrome (and “administrative debris”) with Mozilla’s experimental natural-language interface, Ubiquity. I had originally posted this on Mozilla’s usability list. Mozilla Labs…

Reimagining the browser as a zoomable tree of pages. — This post is part of a series of experiments in redesigning the Web browser. In all of these designs, the primary problem I was solving is that of ‘too many tabs’. …

A series of experiments in redesigning the Web browser. — I’ve been experimenting with redesigning the Web browser for a while, creating various designs and mockups over the years. This a series about those ideas. In these designs, there are several questions and design problems I was trying to solve: How do we prevent the problem of ‘too many tabs’…

How to Bake Real Maṣṣāh at Home — This recipe will let you bake real מַצָּה/maṣṣāh at home. The result will be soft, pliable, and historically authentic — all without leavening. It should be identical to what has been baked in Jewish homes for millennia (before commercial “matzah” bakeries transmogrified this flatbread into crackers). …