Steve Krug

Best known as the guy who wrote Don't Make Me Think and Rocket Surgery Made Easy.

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Urgent request: If you know about patent trolls, please submit a comment TODAY (can be anonymous and only one sentence) to the Patent Office about their proposed new regulation giving free reign to patent trolls. (Deadline is tomorrow, Dec. 2nd). https://t.co/ZEXTA0LsFn

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Yes, that's right. Except for this, I haven't posted since the change in management. Feel free to draw your own conclusions. 😶

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Recently chatted with the charming Andriy and Nataliya Sambir, whose international digital agency Linkup Studio @linkupst is based in Lviv, Ukraine(!) We touched on a lot, including why the word nepotism derives from “nephew.” (Hint: It involves the Pope.) https://t.co/6qnFJx2XHG

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Daily Cartoon: Friday, September 9th https://t.co/dz07YeVYtW via @NewYorker

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@lauraklein Wasn’t it Mark Twain who said “The coldest winter I ever spent was greatly exaggerated”? Oh, wait. That was Ben Franklin.

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@wyatt_privilege @lauraklein Working very hard to restrain the impulse to ask you to explain that tweet. (Nicely done!)

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Great quote: Musk is "a really narcissistic self-interested billionaire who is trying to push a particularly naive idea of what the future should look like onto the public," —Author and transport researcher Paris Marx. https://t.co/glju210Ypc

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@louisrosenfeld @Dropbox But all that notwithstanding, I wouldn’t want it go back to life before Dropbox.

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@louisrosenfeld @Dropbox Oh, wait, it’s true on my PC, too, if I’m using their app and not just dropping things into the Windows folder structure. I don’t think either of the apps *have* an information architecture. And come to think of it, neither does their web app.

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@louisrosenfeld @Dropbox Glad to hear you say it. Goes along with my recent realization that even though I’ve happily and successfully used many different file systems since 1980 (CPM), I’m still not sure I understand Dropbox’s mental model (at least on my phone).

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@usabilitycounts @richpage @JanAhrend @jmspool @jnd1er @lauraklein @LukeW I know. I meant to mention the irony of the fact that in my book I'm on the record as saying that consistency is sometimes overrated as a usability principle. ("If you can make something *significantly* clearer by making it *slightly* inconsistent, choose in favor of clarity.")

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@richpage @usabilitycounts @JanAhrend @jmspool @jnd1er @lauraklein @LukeW Tivo (built into my cable box) is still the champ. Plus it allows for 1.3x speed play, with good audio and captions.

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@richpage @usabilitycounts @JanAhrend @jmspool @jnd1er @lauraklein @LukeW And varying abilities to rewind a small distance when you missed something. Most of them are in the "take a guess how long to hold down the rewind button, then take a guess how long to hold down the fast forward button because you overshot."

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@HribhavP @NotionHQ What a lovely thing to say. Thanks! You made my day. 😁

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@lauraklein “It seems odd that Manchin would chose as his legacy to be the one man who single-handedly doomed humanity.” —John Podesta

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@lauraklein Oh, and Joe Manchin. Throw him in there, too.

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@lauraklein BTW, what ever happened to that project to find the person who first used the word “monetize” and lock them in a room with the one who introduced “gamification”?