Glenn Reid: Thoughts on Software

...and other things in the world of products and design.

Sunday, August 11, 2019

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Open Letter to Amazon: Sunday Delivery is a joke on you Hey Amazon, Your Sunday Delivery is bogus, and here's why. The Postal Serv...
Monday, March 21, 2016

Adobe Jumps the Shark

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I love Adobe Systems.  I worked there three different times, and was employee #40 when it was just a tiny little start-up.  I grew up with A...
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Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Nest Thermostat: No, Thank You.

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Nest Thermostat Review: 2 out of 10 I bought a Nest thermostat, partly to learn about it from a professional standpoint, and partly becau...
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Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Fail: Apple Web Site on Apple Browser

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Did nobody test the quotes HTML on Apple's iforgot web page, on Safari?
Sunday, January 04, 2015

Blog Reboot

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I have had this blog for 11 years now, and there's a lot of stuff lurking in the archives.  It is a reflection of me, I suppose, though ...
Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Apple: Don't Lose My Data!

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Quite a few of us old timers have been bitching about the fact that Apple got rid of "Save As..." in the document model. But few...
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Apple UI Fail

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Interface Design I used to build software at Apple.  I was once a preeminent user interface designer, before they called it either Human I...
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Friday, October 17, 2014

Worst Dialog Box Ever

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I recently was presented with this dialog box on my phone, which I nominate as "Worst Ever": How many things are wrong with t...
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Monday, June 02, 2014

Can we drop the leading "WWW." please?

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The " www. " that preceded web addresses for 20 years is almost as misunderstood as the http://  that precedes it. Modern users o...
Wednesday, April 02, 2014

Origins of the Peace Sign

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I found this fascinating: the Peace Sign, which we all take for granted as an icon, was designed by somebody, on purpose, to advocate nucle...
Thursday, August 08, 2013

Mediocrity Creeps Back: A Review of iPhoto '11

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iPhoto, You've Changed... I led the original team that built iPhoto 1.0 (I have the custom-printed T-shirt and scars to prove it). I s...
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Friday, July 26, 2013

Mobile is the Future! Or is it?

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I hear this every day: "The future is mobile."  Yahoo is getting on that train now, everybody is getting on board.  I am not so su...
Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Blow up your TV. Throw Away Your Paper. Move to the Country.

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A hear a lot of complaining recently about Google and Facebook and how evil they might be, and how they are taking over the world , and i...
Tuesday, May 07, 2013

Adobe Creative Cloud 1 - First Impressions

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Adobe is really launching the Creative Cloud with CS6.  I decided to have a look.  I'm a very long-term power user of Adobe products, so...
Wednesday, May 01, 2013

Starbucks Pisses Me Off [and is forgiven]

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I have been a VERY loyal Starbucks customer for many years, as anyone who knows me will attest. I say good things about them.  I am a brand ...
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Tuesday, October 09, 2012

Tanks

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Tanks , a set on Flickr. I took these photos a while back when touring "Pony Tracks Ranch", the largest private collection of tank...
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Product Guy. Founder/CEO of Marathon Laundry Machines, Inc. Creator of iMovie and iPhoto at Apple. Veteran of Adobe Systems, the desktop publishing revolution, NeXT computers.
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