November 5, 2009 @ 6:25 pm
Back in May of this year, I posted about a wonderful redesign project by Dustin Curtis who took it upon himself to redesign the American Airlines website. Dustin’s reasons for doing this were to hopefully inspire American Airlines to do something about their barely usable site and to generally give them a better online presence in the midst of competition from people like JetBlue (who have a great online website).
As the story goes, Dustin was then contacted by somebody — Mr. X, as he is known — who worked at American Airlines and wanted to clear the air with some knowledge of how the design process works at AA.
Well, Mr. X volunteered that information and then AA fired him for apparently breaking a non-disclosure agreement which is unfortunate because Mr. X seemed pretty passionate about what he did at AA in his letter to Dustin.
I’m not going to go into who was right or wrong here, but I hope American Airlines gets over their red tape and thinks about what they’ve just done.
September 20, 2009 @ 1:32 am
I just started using this neat little app called CoverSutra today as a supplement to my music listening experience on my computer. What CoverSutra does is add additional iTunes functionality without the need to keep switching back to the iTunes application. CoverSutra adds a small music icon to the menu bar and from there you have the ability to search and pick individual songs using keyboard shortcuts. In the end, the song-switching and song-picking procedure is sped up a lot because you don’t have to mess with the task switcher or move your cursor to select iTunes. It doesn’t sound like much when I’m explaining it in words, but CoverSutra is so good at saving me time to be better off spent elsewhere that now I can’t ever see myself turning it off.
You can use the link provided above to try it out.
March 23, 2009 @ 12:49 pm
By now, you’ve probably already seen a sneak peek at some images from my adventure into the Freedom Tunnel. It truly is a magical and peaceful place that really is as cool as everybody says.
My recount of the day’s events is inside, but if you really just want to see pictures, you can head over here to the Freedom Tunnel gallery.
(more…)
