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My personal insight from a discussion with Don Lindsay - Grass Roots Quality
The other day (as in, February 8th, 2015) we had a visit by Don Lindsay at Wix. Don (who's rich history at Blackberry, Microsoft and...

Reuven Sherwin
Feb 9, 20151 min read
...We'd like to feature you on the Wix Blog...
It was mid-2014, and the Wix Community team contacted me, telling me to answer some questions about myself, in order to prepare a piece...

Reuven Sherwin
Feb 5, 20152 min read


WWTT??? - Shake to Undo??? Part 1
The iPhone, and along it - iOS - it's operating system, were a breakthrough in many ways, possibly (in retrospect) launching a whole new...

Reuven Sherwin
Jan 26, 20151 min read


WWTT??? - Shake to Undo??? Part 2
(Continued from Yesterday...) Excited, he told her "I solved the problem of Undo - I know how we can easily add Undo the iPhone OS, and...

Reuven Sherwin
Jan 26, 20151 min read


What were they thinking??? 50 NIS Bank Notes, Part 2
Well, that is not my "beef" with the new 50 NIS bank note. My WWTT moment with the new note was as soon as I saw it - it looks sooooo...

Reuven Sherwin
Jan 9, 20151 min read


What were they thinking??? 50 NIS Bank Notes, Part 1
On September 16th, 2014, the Israeli Ministry of Finance (along with the Bank of Israel) introduced a new bank note for the 50 NIS (New...

Reuven Sherwin
Jan 8, 20151 min read


What Were They Thinking??? Water Dispenser
Morning. Arriving at work. Setup computer. Go to kitchen. Coffee!!! Coffee machine out-of-order. Need to go old-school - two tablespoons...

Reuven Sherwin
Jan 7, 20152 min read


What were they thinking??? Clocks
Late in 2014 I visited the offices of a VC in Palo Alto, for a gathering of Product people from different "consumer facing" companies....

Reuven Sherwin
Jan 6, 20151 min read


What were they thinking??? Desktop Lamp
In this (and the following?) blog posts, I'll be discussing "What Were They Thinking???" designs - designs that I'm sure someone gave...

Reuven Sherwin
Jan 5, 20152 min read
December 4th, 2014: Big Day! First "live" test of the New Wix Blog! [2 of 2]
(Continued from Yesterday) Also, scheduled some pre-cooked posts to be auto-published tomorrow (Friday the 5th of December - and in...

Reuven Sherwin
Dec 23, 20141 min read
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December 4th, 2014: Big Day! First "live" test of the New Wix Blog! [1 of 2]
So, today, I finally got a chance to really play with the Wix Blog. I started by playing around with back-tagging (going back and tagging...

Reuven Sherwin
Dec 21, 20141 min read
Lollipop... Highly Impressed! (Part 5 of 5)
(Continued from yesterday) Drumroll... Enter Lollipop... Wow! Smooth, fun, high finish quality. Great new features (and those copied from...

Reuven Sherwin
Dec 13, 20141 min read
Lollipop... Highly Impressed! (Part 4 of 5)
(Continued from yesterday) I prefer the iPhone, and prefer the iOS, but Nexus 5 and Android 4.4.x (KitKat) are an OK combo. I know people...

Reuven Sherwin
Dec 12, 20141 min read
Lollipop... Highly Impressed! (Part 3 of 5)
(Continued from yesterday) Something that I felt was very well designed, so much so I felt that (device-wise) I could "live" w/o my...

Reuven Sherwin
Dec 11, 20141 min read
Lollipop... Highly Impressed! (Part 2 of 5)
(Continued from yesterday) So, last week I decided I'll root my Nexus 5 and install the pre-release version of Android 5, AKA Lollipop....

Reuven Sherwin
Dec 11, 20141 min read


Lollipop... Highly Impressed! (Part 1 of 5)
TL;DR; I still prefer the iPhone hardware/software combo. BUT - if I had to switch to a Nexus 5 running Lollipop, I would hardly...

Reuven Sherwin
Nov 24, 20141 min read


Apple faults, again? iOS 8 Keyboard Extensions (Part 2 of 2)
(Continued from yesterday) 1. It started with Swype's issue - but I would expect Apple to block this... That is, Swype moved the location...

Reuven Sherwin
Oct 1, 20141 min read
Apple faults, again? iOS 8 Keyboard Extensions (Part 1 of 2)
So, Apple came out with iOS 8. And one of the biggest most exciting features for iOS 8 (and long-awaited by the Android-envious amongst...

Reuven Sherwin
Sep 30, 20141 min read


IMO: Bad Apple UX, part 2 of 2
(Continued from yesterday) We've seen the English and Hebrew keyboards. (FWIW, the same "pattern" repeats itself for all other languages...

Reuven Sherwin
Sep 1, 20141 min read


IMO: Bad Apple UX, part 1 of 2
Bad Apple UX? Can that be? Well, I've seen people write long blogs about the Apple iOS virtual keyboard, and it's (lack of) reasonable...

Reuven Sherwin
Aug 31, 20141 min read
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