Sometimes, it is kinda sad to see how far interaction design goes to emulate real world obstructions – obstructions that wouldn’t exist in digital form to begin with.
Let’s have a look at the calendar to the right. This is taken from a blog, and basically, it should be used as a way to navigate the [...]
Quicksilver is probably my most used application on my Mac. Its developer, Nicholas Jitkoff1 gives a look behind the scenes at Google Tech Talks.
Found via habi.
He’s kinda cute on that vid, or as Merlin Mann puts it: “actually astonishingly good-looking”. Who says software developers have to be ugly grumpy nerds? I mean, there are even [...]
Most doors have handles. Handles on doors are usually used to pull or push in order to open the door. Not necessarily, though, in those train coaches used by the BLS.
infoscreen der sbb Originally uploaded by phpfreak…. Very informative, having Windows telling all travellers that it just screwed up, right?I would be so embarrassed if I were working in SBB’s IT department. This thing is failing as ungracefully as it can possibly get.Come on: let it run on something stable, far less chatty than Windows – and, most of all, program it to fail gracefully and invisibly to your customers.Can that be so hard to accomplish?
After usability, there comes flow: “Thanks for giving me something useable, well-designed, and useful…. Can you keep me so immersed that time and all the clutter of daily existence drops away? Where I’m under a spell that’s never broken by an intrusion from the software itself?
Shaun Inman: Com/post Originally uploaded by xeophin.
Shaun Inman’s designs are always breathtaking and beautifully executed.
I find the colour codes he has now introduced in his com/post especially intriguing: Depending on when an entry has been posted, it will receive a unique colour. This colour will [...]
According to a poll by the magazine Mobile, more than three quarters of Motorola mobile phone users would not buy another Motorola handset because they are too difficult to use.
Why does that not surprise me? Honestly, I love my RAZR for its sleek design, but the interface is both ugly and a pain to use. [...]
I’m not quite sure if recreating my messy real life desktop would be such a great idea – but it sure looks playful:
Tagsoup: GUI, InformationDesign, Interaction Design
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information aesthetics: «most people will assume that iSIC sounds like background music, however, a trained operator will know differently. the operators will be immediately alerted to changes in the system by changes in the music, even if they are not paying attention.»
Since Apple introduced the Sudden Motion Sensor, there has been an array of all kinds of funny applications, hijacking it’s functions and using it as an additional input device.
A short list of things, software should do – and Adobe Illustrator fails to do.
Die letzte halbe Woche war ich zumindest zu Hause vom Internet getrennt. Die Elektriker hatten wegen Arbeiten am Kabelnetz gesamte Quartier vom Netz gehängt, sich aber hinterher nicht aufgeschrieben, wer denn nun auch Internetzugang über Kabel hatten – und sich darauf entschlossen, einfach niemanden zu verbinden, und zu warten, wer anrufen und reklamieren würde … Auch ein Weg.
From the Company that people love to hate.
Da hat auf der Uni Bern im Web(master)stübchen wohl einer entfernt was von «Barrierefreiheit» gehört. Also setzt er sich hin und macht was? Er macht eine Seite, mit der sich die Schrift vergrössern lässt. Boah. Doch wo hat sich diese wertvolle Information versteckt? Man suche, bitteschön.
Was bringen einem Benutzer detaillierte Einstellungen, wenn er sie keinen Sinn machen?