In a previous post I said that Search User Interfaces (UI) have two jobs -- helping people find things and educating them about the catalog's structure. (I'll use "catalog" here under the assumption that I'm describing an e-commerce search system, but much of this post is relevant for other search domains.) …

A couple of months ago I released Almost Five, a fuzzy-text watchface for the reborn Pebble smartwatch. It's been fun hacking on watch faces, but I realized I had a practical gap: I needed a count-up stopwatch I could wear on my wrist while cooking, without pulling out my phone.

There are lots of timer apps on the …

You might remember the old Pebble smartwatch -- a minimalist e-ink watch that was popular among a certain set ten or so years ago. Well, it's back -- the original creator is manufacturing new hardware, and the software has been open-sourced. I wasn't on the bandwagon when they were originally popular, but I picked up …