One-Laptop-Per-Child Human Interface Guidelines
Note to self: Review OLPC Human Interface Guidelines “This UI is quite simply one of the deepest and most interesting redesigns of the desktop user interface ever produced. It makes MacOS look like...
View ArticleMicrosoft Using Comics to Promote Office 2007
The Enchanted Office: One Upon a User Interface Everything you’d expect in a comic is there; wizards, Buffy references, overall-wearing Rhinoceroses, cubicles, pie charts. I quite like how subtle the...
View ArticlePretty Empty Pipes
I played around with Pipes and aside from loosely matching iTunes songs with YouTube videos or loosely matching Flickr photos with NY Times articles, I’ve yet to ‘get it’. The interface itself is...
View ArticleUI and WebDev jobs
First post here, for a longtime reader and sometime coffee-time attender. My company is hiring. I’m particularly keen to see the Web Designer position filled by someone with IA and usability interests...
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Pownce.com Bought Some Pretty Dumb Computers
Computers are smart. They can do lots of cool things like tell me it’s my turn to pick up the produce from the CSA or load up an interesting blog post for you to read. Unfortunately, ‘social network’...
View ArticleAn Engadget post discussing the future of Adobe Flash
I found this to be a very interesting read: http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/switched-on-apples-brash-flash-clash-rehash/ I find my mac loyalty waning as they become a bigger player in the world of...
View ArticlePeople Don't Care
“‘People who like cheddar cheese are inherently better than people who like gouda.’ Now that’s obviously silly.” – Dave Winer The only thing I take issue with is the word “users”.
View ArticlePNG Product Images?
A question to the community at large. I’ve been asked to give an opinion on the PNG file format. More specifically, if it would be worth it to include a PNG version of products in the process of...
View ArticleFlash Player 10 hit labs
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/ Check out some of what Adobe’s got planned for the next Flash Player release. Will we be able to compete with “Microsoft Sparkle” (aka Silverlight) ?...
View ArticleDictionaries and Usability
When you think of user interfaces you generally think of screens, buttons, knobs and maybe some documentation on how to use these objects. But lets get away from that for a moment, if you don’t mind....
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