In the United States, today is known as “Cyber Monday,” the Monday after Thanksgiving that is one of the busiest online shopping days of the year. Motivated by this special Christmas shopping day, I wanted to talk about the usability of some ecommerce rich internet applications (RIA) and illustrate how important it is to keep the main goals of your application or website in mind.

When developing an…

This Sci-Fi flick came out 8 long years ago. It was a pretty good movie, I watched it several times. It got a 7.7 out of 10 points on imdb. Cool.

But isn’t it time to move forward and stop using these same old photos of Tom Cruise gesturing in front of a glass wall UI at UX conferences when you want to express what “awesome” UIs are? At a recent conference in New York City a keynote speaker showed one of these infamous…