User Interface Design

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• Jetpack for Learning Taking Off

  
  Pogovor — Authority: 91
  Image via Wikipedia I’m privileged to be be one half of the technical mentoring team for the Jetpack for Learning Design Challenge , along with the prolific Andy Edmonds . We’re well under way to getting the participants going with implementing their ideas in Phase 2. You can read about some of them on the ...
  1 day ago

• Boxee Beta and Boxee box unveiled!

  
  Gadget News and Reviews — Authority: 165
  Boxee has made its new user interface design official and it does look very good. From what we can see, it looks well thought-out as well. The global menu leads you quickly to the most accessed features and the social aspect (recommendations and so on...) is very readable on the left. The other critical element, the ...
  1 week ago

• Marc Coleran’s futuristic interface design

  
  Kiedis.fr — Authority: 124
  Mr & Mrs Smith, Blade II, , Mission Impossible 3, James Bond, Bourne trilogy, Tomb Rider or The Island. They all have in common one thing: Marc Coleran’s interface design . It might not be the first thing you remember about those films but without their interface design they would not be the same. Marc creates ...
  1 week ago

• Jakob Nielsen’s Ten Usability Heuristics

  
  Simon Whatley — Authority: 106
  These are ten general principles for user interface design suggested by Jakob Nielsen . They are called heuristics because they are more in the nature of rules of thumb than specific usability guidelines. Visibility of system status — The system should always keep users informed about what is going on, ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Cross platform Qt era is coming!

  
  Handful of Nothing — Authority: 91
  While true, zero effort cross platform would be nearly impossible but what if you could do it for your mobile devices with minimal efforts? Also it would be really nice if designers and developer are able to do more “rich” UI style software with less effort. This is how I see Qt. I see it [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Breaking Rules

  
  Usability Post — Authority: 495
  In user interface design we have a thing called design patterns, or more specifically, user interface patterns — tried and tested ways of building interface elements, or sets of elements together, that solve a given problem. User interface patterns include things like drop-down menus, search boxes, value sliders, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Listen to Fred Beecher’s “Integrating Effective Prototyping into Your Design Process” talk at IA Summit 2009

  
  { design@tive } information design — Authority: 129
  Senior User Experience Consultant Fred Beecher shows his audience how to determine what, for your particular situation, is the most effective way to use prototyping to improve the user experience of your site or software. He shares the factors that influence how effective various prototyping methodologies will be ...
  2 weeks ago

• Chromulated Thoughts

  
  Franois Schiettecatte's Blog — Authority: 119
  So a friend and I have been batting a few emails back and forth about ChromeOS after I downloaded a disc image and played around with it for about 30 minutes. I also listened to some of Paul Thurrott’s thoughts on it on Windows Weekly and went back to play with it a little more. Generally I found it to be ...
  2 weeks ago

• Full Interview: Clay Shirky

  
  CBC: Spark Plus — Authority: 120
  Have you ever played around with a gadget or application, only to discover it’s absolutely perfect for something different from its original design? This kind of inventiveness, or playfulness, happens all the time in our digital environment, but it signals a major shift in the relationship between the inventor or ...
  2 weeks ago

• Best Thread Ever for Interactive Interface (Systems) Designers: James Landays "I Give Up on CHI/UIST" post + 63 comments

  
  The World Is My Interface — Authority: 122
  Im considering resuming my graduate studies in the near future, and came across this incredibly insightful discussion surrounding James Landays November 7th post on his DUB For the Future (Thoughts... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  2 weeks ago

• Mobile Ergonomics for those with two thumbs

  
  Greg's Head — Authority: 103
  You can’t easily tap every region of the phone with equal ease. Your hand isn’t designed for this.  Yes your thumb is opposable but unless it’s double jointed there will still be parts of your phone that will be harder to tap. When designing an application consider how it’s going to be held.  In one hand, ...
  3 weeks ago

• IDEO’s Human Centered Design Toolkit

  
  Simon Whatley — Authority: 106
  IDEO’s Human Centered Design Toolkit is a free innovation guide for NGOs and social enterprises. Human-Centered Design ( HCD ) is a process used for decades to create new solutions for companies and organisations. HCD can help you enhance the lives of people. This process has been specially-adapted for ...
  3 weeks ago

• Quick Calendar UI Review – Google

  
  Greg's Head — Authority: 103
  This is a simple UI critique of a simple feature burried in Google Calendar.  Here’s the original: It’s a relatively simple form.  It’s certainly not bad but I think it could be better. Here’s a quick mock up: Here are the key design points: The body of the form has “What, When, Where” ...
  3 weeks ago

• American Airlines Fires Web Designer For Helping Customer [American Airlines]

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 802
  Dustin Curtis complained to American Airlines about its poor website user interface . A designer within the company reached out to him to apologize, say how it was hard sometime to design well at a large company, but that better designs were coming down the pike. American Airlines then fired the designer. ...
  4 weeks ago

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