Posts by Allen Cheung
The Cost of Best Practices on the Web
Those of us who were building websites a decade ago remember the Internet Explorer tax. Project managers budgeted anywhere from 25% to 50% of additional engineering effort for building a site compatible in IE6 & 7. As the majority of…
The Acceleration of Educational Competition
As the parent of a happy and fun two-year old, I became disheartened when reading this report on how the pressure is increasing for toddlers – not even children! – to compete to get into the “best schools.” The gist is…
How Minimalism Becomes Homogeneous and Unfriendly
Flat design has been the hot current design trend. It may have been ushered into prominence by Apple’s iOS 7 and Google’s Material Design[1], but its philosophies resonate under the broader umbrella of minimalism. Minimalist design has…
The Many Buttons of GTA5
I’ve been working through the PS4 version of Grand Theft Auto 5 recently. It’s something like the 7th game in the series (after GTA3 added a number of sequels labeled GTA3 but were fully-fledged titles), and at…
Obsessing over Apple Watch Bands
What is it about Apple products that have people discussing the most mundane details? How much discussion do watch bands – though admittedly expensive – really warrant? The question is at best rhetorical. Apple is an absolute machine when it comes to…
Job Posting “Deliberately Implausible”
There was a study done a few years ago by Microsoft that showed that those infamous Nigerian scam emails were written with terrible English grammar for a reason; it was an easy way way to implicitly filter for the gullible…
