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Posts Tagged ‘Interface’

GUI Design: Palettes vs. Drawers

By Emile • Jul 31st, 2006 • Category: General

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, Gmail, and the Delete Button

By Emile • Jan 27th, 2006 • Category: Design, General, Software, WWW

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 […]