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Every so often, someone opens a product and says something like, “Wow, this is really easy to use.”
I always smile a little when I hear that. Because if the experience feels effortless, it usually means someone spent months wrestling with the opposite.
Design work is funny that way. When it’s done well, nobody notices the struggle behind it. They just glide through the interface and move on with their day. No friction. No confusion. No mental gymnastics. [Read more…]
Have you ever joined a new job and asked how something works, only to hear, “Oh, Sarah usually handles that”? That moment captures a problem many companies quietly struggle with.
When knowledge lives in people’s heads instead of written systems, work slows down and mistakes multiply.
Businesses are starting to realize that smarter process documentation is not just boring paperwork. It has become a strategic tool that helps teams move faster, train employees better, and survive sudden disruptions. [Read more…]
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Do you use the same computer for both work and home use?
If so, keeping those activities isolated from one another could help prevent confusion and perhaps even embarrassment in the event that the two were to somehow become entangled with one another.
Luckily, it’s very easy to keep your work and home computing activities completely isolated from one another. All you have to do is create a new user account to sign into while you’re working. [Read more…]
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Question from Ethan: I was reading an article last night that discussed using part of a computer’s unused RAM as a RAM Disk, and it got me to thinking.
I have an older desktop computer that’s running Windows 10 (it can’t be upgraded to Windows 11). It has 4GB of RAM and a 500GB hard drive.
This machine runs really slow, coming almost to a crawl at times. After doing some research I’ve determined that it’s likely sluggish because it’s doing a ton of swapping back and forth with the page file.
Do you think moving the Windows Page File to a RAM Disk would help speed it up? [Read more…]
A friend of mine drives the Tauranga to Auckland motorway three times a week. Last month he counted 14 fresh stone chips across his bonnet and bumper after one run behind a loaded truck.
The respray quote was over NZ$900 for the bumper alone.
New Zealand roads are hard on paint, and our summer UV Index regularly hits 12 or higher, which is classed as extreme. That combo speeds up fading, oxidation, and chip damage. [Read more…]