November 2009
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April 2009
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8 Characteristics Of Successful User Interfaces →
March 2009
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Pattern Tap: Explore Popular Design Patterns →
“A user interface is well-designed when the program behaves exactly how the user...”
– Joel Spolsky in his book, UI Design for Programmers.
February 2009
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Comment. Discuss. Argue.
As per Philip’s advice, I’ve added Disqus. It’s not the most elegant solution, but it should do.
Tumblr, please add a native commenting solution and give your users the choice of using it or not. Using an outside solution just breaks whatever consistency there might have been into millions of tiny (and ugly) fragments.
I’ve put together my own theme. Haven’t gotten...
Whitney Hess explains UX →
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Kyocera KM-3050
Our whole office building recently got new photocopiers. It has a colour touchscreen! I absolutely hate it.
First off, who still thinks resistive touchscreens are a good idea? I don’t want to poke at an icky, plasticky surface until it registers as a click after the umpteenth time.
The user interface itself makes this experience worse. Take logging in. You’re presented with a login...
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And so it begins...
I’ve got a blog over at http://compl33t.com, but a full-blown blog isn’t really the kind of place where I want to post snippets on usability and UX. So here we are. My full-time job involves UX and UI design, but it’s actually much broader than that. I won’t go into details. My ultimate career goal, however, lies somewhere in Information Architecture. I’m new to the...