I saw the enclosed dialogue box on a colleague’s PC and thought that you might find it amusing.
[Screens Around Town] Nivea, Newsweek, and “Yes to All” - (37signals)
Monthly Archives: May 2008
[Screens Around Town] Nivea, Newsweek, and “Yes to All” - (37signals)
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Outdoor pictogram headlines // Designing The News
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
The idea would be that a simple application would pull headlines from the BBC News website, or any website, and seperate the headline into individual words. It would then check a database to see if there is a pictogram associated with that word and display it. This would loop for all words until the headline […]
Ajaxian » A new spin on the datepicker control
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Just when you thought that datepickers had been played out, along comes Filament Group and puts a whole new spin on it. Working from Mark Grabanski’s jQuery UI DatePicker control, the team substantially enhanced the UI with a host of new features…
Ajaxian » A new spin on the datepicker control
The Rise of Contextual User Interfaces - ReadWriteWeb
Friday, May 16, 2008
It is ironic that it took web UIs so long to discover the elegance and simplicity of context. Since its dawn, HTML lacked the sophisticated widgets that are present on the desktop and web UIs were always considered more primitive and slow. Contextual, AJAX-based UIs actually seem faster because they do not reveal all possible […]
Song of the Day
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Charanga 76: No Nos Pararan [MP3]
Taken from the 12″ on TR Records (1979)
Compete on Usability: Simplicity is not the ultimate goal
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
I saw a hotel telephone last week that perfectly illustrates one of my favorite themes: simple is not always more usable. Here’s a phone without any buttons. It doesn’t get much simpler than that! Yet most people wouldn’t even consider it a real telephone, because essential features are missing. How do you choose who […]
IA Summit ‘08 Slidecast: “How to be a UX Team of One”
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
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blink design library: Filter controls with keyword search
Saturday, May 10, 2008
We’ve tested a number of search interfaces and in general we’ve found that people often neglect refinement options. It could be that people are conditioned to the web search experience (particularly Google) and therefore are less inclined to take refinement steps as part of entering their search.The search function at iStockphoto encourages visitors to refine […]