I don’t like being quick to judge things (at least, not very often), but sometimes I just can’t help it. I’ve held off riding the deluge and tidal wave of bad blood towards iTunes new UI because I wanted to form my own opinion. But the kneejerk reaction was simple: I don’t like […]
There’s an interesting philosophical GUI-design question which is promulgating amongst Mac-development forums. That is, the question of whether to use palettes or drawers for displaying relevant or sub-information to the current selection in a window.
You can read more at:
The Flying Meat board, including this post
Gus Mueller’s blog (where it kinda all began)
Oreilly’s madevcenter.com
Ultimately, I think […]
Google idealism of “do no evil”, while admirable, is still not necessarily practical. What I mean by that is that Gmail users like myself have contended with the fact that Google thought, in their original release of Gmail, that 1gig of space is so profuse and excessive that users would never really need to […]
For those not in the know, the folks over at FireWheel design and IconBuffet.com are giving away royalty-free artwork and icons (for both commercial and personal use). Simply, this is a brilliant idea at creating a network of users hawking in the trading of their lovely free creations. All you need to do […]
The FileMaker paradigm of designing a database system has missed the wonderful tool of parameters for such a long time, that I still find myself having to rethink a lot of solutions where I was previously hardwired to have multiple but similar scripts, instead of one script that could handle practically any paramter I throw […]
I’ve always liked tooltips, the ingenious little popups that fade in and out of existence when users place their mouse cursor over certain hotspots on the screen. Generally, they give you more information about a link or describe the purpose of an obscure icon. And recently, in reading an interview with Shaun Inman […]
