Best Date of Birth Widget

I’m often looking for great user experiences and I recently came across a great date of birth picker while registering for Mogo. Often date of birth forms separate the day, month and year and start from today’s date. This means going back 20+ users for most adults register for a service. This DOB picker starts […]

Confused users? Just add stickies…

Facebook is trying hard to get users to user and like its new profile re-design.  I think one of the funniest new additions are little yellow stickies on all the new and non-obvious additions.  Kinda of a “we know you’ll miss this if we don’t tell you” approach to interface design. I’m not sure how […]

Yellowpages.ca Reboot

Yellowpages.ca has just finished a reboot of their web site. The new site is alot clean than the old one and has much more of a Google/search engine feel to it. The proximity search is still not what I would expect and is not as easy to use as I think it should be. I […]

University of Toronto – A course in bad ecommerce

As many of you know I’ve been taking courses in the University of Toronto’s Continuing Ed program. I’ve found a lot of the courses have helped a lot with my day job. This fall I’d like to take a Marketing course on Competitive Intelligence. Unfortunately the University of Toronto has “improved” its e-commerce process. Basically […]

MythTV Usability

I’ve been using MythTV for about 2 years now and at times its been a challenge to keep it running. One of the reason I keep coming back to it is that I find it to be the easiest PVR to use. Recently a usability study of MythTV was done by Interactive Digital Television Laboratory […]

Star Wars

In anticipation of the new Star Wars movie, Revenge of The Sith, I’ve moved to a Star Wars based Template by Tim Toomey. I’ve pre-purchased tickets to see it Thursday at Noon, if it sucks expect the old template back real soon 😉

New Site

Welcome my new site, I hope you like the funky mojo theme. I’ve also moved to Mambo as a new content manager. Thanks to Arthur Konze for releasing this cool Mambo template. New Site features: New Mojo theme Mambo based content management Colin’s Arcade Integrated Photo Gallery Update: Site has been moved from Mambo->Joomla->Wordpress so […]