Archive
This is a list of everything I have published on davemulder.com. Though I've been blogging since 2000 (and regularly since 2005), most of my older content has been lost.
2011 Dec 14 — Mobile and flow: A perfect storm for user experience2011 Nov 09 — Siri, Google, and the future of mobile2011 Sep 28 — Future Friendly: My take, a critique, and a criticism2011 Sep 23 — Pushing the restart button on mobile development2011 Sep 22 — Facebook’s overlooked UX upgrade2011 Sep 12 — Defining the literacy of connectedness2011 Aug 19 — Autosuggest: A basic expectation for search?2011 Aug 16 — The story behind SoapBox2011 Jul 14 — Context and the future of mobile (SLIDES)2011 Jul 05 — Design, science, and Mad Men2011 Jun 23 — Why do small startups have CEOs and CTOs?2011 Jun 02 — Building a weather app for the iPad2011 May 31 — It’s time to reshape higher education2011 Apr 20 — Rapid prototyping and shipping incomplete2011 Apr 07 — Experiments are the future of usability research2011 Feb 20 — Distractions, the office, and working from home2011 Jan 26 — Clearing up the state of mobile in higher ed2011 Jan 21 — Ordering links in a navigation menu2010 Dec 09 — A strange “I agree” field list2010 Nov 13 — Traffic lights: Accessibility and usability2010 Oct 22 — Let’s get responsive2010 Oct 19 — Future of web bookmarking: Delicious and Instapaper2010 Sep 29 — October 2010: Best in college homepage design2010 Sep 26 — Too-many-apps-itis2010 Aug 30 — On the design of sinks and faucets2010 Aug 21 — Don’t lock content away in PDFs2010 Aug 18 — One web versus mobile web2010 Aug 05 — Accelerate from zero to vision2010 Aug 02 — Mobile in higher ed: We can do better2010 Aug 01 — Things I’ve Read: July 20102010 Jul 26 — Feedback is essential to improving experience2010 Jul 15 — Saying goodbye to my iPhone2010 Jul 12 — Designing for delight2010 Jul 08 — Business UX: Make life better for callers2010 Jul 01 — Using Google Analytics? Where’s your privacy policy?2010 Jun 28 — Learning the Rework philosophy2010 Jun 22 — Better UX with faceted navigation2010 Jun 21 — Make your blog printer-friendly2010 Jun 20 — Design for yourself2010 Jun 19 — Why every business needs a user experience researcher2010 Jun 18 — Solving UX problems through innovation (not iteration)2010 Jun 17 — The principles of Gary Vaynerchuk’s ‘Thank You Economy’2010 Jun 16 — (Some) Evidence against 5-point response scales2010 Jun 15 — Ranking CIC schools by web traffic (June 2010)2010 Jun 14 — Why month-by-month archives are a waste of space2010 Jun 11 — Solved: Rory Sutherland’s fourth quadrant2010 Jun 09 — Mobile connectivity: a force of change that sneaks up on us2010 Jun 08 — How I learned to love web accessibility2010 Jun 04 — Young adults care about their online reputation2010 May 29 — How 12 HTML characters would make IMDb easier to use2010 May 26 — Site traffic versus Google search rank2010 May 24 — Network effects: The simple explanation2010 May 20 — How Facebook rapidly diffuses innovations2010 May 14 — 6 ways to annoy and lose Twitter followers2010 May 14 — May 2010: Best in college homepage design2010 May 13 — Social networking sites and job hunting2010 May 11 — 48% of college homepages have social media callouts2010 May 10 — 3 simple rules for hiring a social media consultant2010 May 04 — Toward a folksonomy for color (so long, indigo!)2010 Apr 30 — Students are NOT addicted to social media2010 Apr 29 — Why lightweight design will win out2010 Apr 22 — The short-term future of social media2010 Apr 21 — My Ignite Lansing preso (video)2010 Apr 21 — Spotted: Jargon on Petco.com2010 Apr 11 — Fraudulent charges from JHD Productions2010 Apr 09 — Google feature request: Day of the week2010 Mar 25 — IBM’s Beehive2010 Mar 18 — Adblock-free for 3 months2010 Mar 17 — What I have been watching lately2010 Mar 16 — Social tagging not so social2010 Mar 15 — Mobile website analytics2010 Mar 12 — Survivorship bias2010 Mar 09 — Too much data2010 Mar 08 — Chatroulette and chance2010 Mar 04 — Be transparent when raising prices2010 Mar 03 — One rule before I tweet2010 Feb 28 — Change your perspective2010 Feb 25 — Dave’s rules for better meetings2010 Feb 18 — Follow people you don’t agree with2010 Feb 17 — When Michigan State became Sparty2010 Feb 16 — Design width in higher ed2010 Feb 07 — Super Bowl ad pundits2010 Feb 05 — Crowd-powered awards suck2010 Jan 30 — Twitter pet peeve: Air-time television tweets2010 Jan 28 — Let information come to you2010 Jan 25 — Interns and social media2010 Jan 14 — When the average lies2010 Jan 13 — The coming commoditization of good web design2010 Jan 09 — Design epistemology2010 Jan 09 — Followup thoughts on what we know2010 Jan 09 — What do we really know about design?2010 Jan 07 — Is Gary Vaynerchuk’s success a function of chance?2010 Jan 04 — Pet peeve: Clumped tweets2009 Dec 30 — When statistics lack meaning2009 Dec 30 — How I changed in 20092009 Dec 28 — Article titles: upper case versus lower case2009 Dec 27 — How to make brain facts stickier2009 Dec 26 — Book review: Fooled By Randomness2009 Dec 15 — Two social space innovations needed in 20102009 Dec 10 — Improving your iPhone favorite contacts page2009 Dec 04 — The most popular first name among Reddit users2009 Dec 04 — Reviewing Twitter’s new mobile version2009 Nov 21 — Another example of possible Twitter follower fraud2009 Nov 18 — Social confirmation and Twitter follow fraud2009 Nov 16 — Poor usability on display: Moleskine.com2009 Nov 03 — A better Threadless gifting option: Let them choose a tee2009 Nov 01 — Automated eye tracking heat maps don’t really work2009 Oct 09 — Speaking navigation: Intuitive and effective2009 Oct 07 — User-centered design is just a methodology2009 Oct 06 — Best CIC homepages for prospective students2009 Oct 05 — Why don’t we see more emphasized search boxes?2009 Oct 04 — MIT.edu: creative community engagement2009 Oct 02 — Higher education websites are mostly crap2009 Jun 13 — Great video: New York City in miniature2009 Jan 08 — Scalable careers: Where we are headed2008 Dec 05 — Telecommunication merger attempts: DirecTV/Dish Network and XM/Sirius2008 Sep 20 — Call your local office of science2004 Apr 21 — Remembering Alexis de Tocqueville