User Interface Design

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• 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 ...
  2 days ago

• Marc Coleran’s futuristic interface design

  
  Kiedis.fr — Authority: 126
  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 ...
  4 days ago

• Jakob Nielsen’s Ten Usability Heuristics

  
  Simon Whatley — Authority: 109
  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, ...
  1 week ago

• The Cross platform Qt era is coming!

  
  Handful of Nothing — Authority: 92
  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 [...]
  1 week ago

• Breaking Rules

  
  Usability Post — Authority: 493
  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, ...
  1 week ago

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

  
  { design@tive } information design — Authority: 130
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Chromulated Thoughts

  
  Franois Schiettecatte's Blog — Authority: 118
  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 ...
  1 week 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 ...
  1 week 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: 121
  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! ]]
  1 week ago

• Mobile Ergonomics for those with two thumbs

  
  Greg's Head — Authority: 107
  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, ...
  2 weeks ago

• IDEO’s Human Centered Design Toolkit

  
  Simon Whatley — Authority: 109
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Quick Calendar UI Review – Google

  
  Greg's Head — Authority: 107
  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” ...
  2 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. ...
  3 weeks ago

• New Magic Mouse

  
  Franois Schiettecatte's Blog — Authority: 118
  So I got the new Apple Magic Mouse and I am finding it to be very nice. I also liked the previous Mighty Mouse a lot too, but I think I must have been one of the very few. I have small hands, have RSI and some arthritis, and for some reason the smaller mouse worked best for me. The Magic Mouse works pretty well for ...
  3 weeks ago

• Microsoft group manager: Windows 7 borrowing Mac look and feel (updated: Microsoft responds)

  
  Engadget — Authority: 849
  Well be honest -- before today, we had never heard of Simon Aldous, but it sure seems as if hes trying hard to get his name out there. Mr. Aldous, a group manager at Microsoft, recently sat down for a rather lengthy talk with PCR . Most of the back-and-forth revolved around receiving input from partners and other ...
  3 weeks ago

• Creative & Modern Website Footer for Designers

  
  Open Source Resources for Designers & Developers | Greepit.com — Authority: 125
  Handpicked collection of Beautiful, Creative & modern website footer for designers . A very handy pack for design references.
  4 weeks ago

• NYTimes Innovation Portfolio

  
  Houze.net — Authority: 107
  A terrific new gallery of infographics and interactive design from the New York Times shows how interesting data visualizations and features increase the time readers spent on their site. And it makes their ads more valuable; interesting design is good business.
  5 weeks ago

• Can You Say That in English? Explaining UX Research to Clients

  
  A List Apart — Authority: 568
  Its hard for clients to understand the true value of user experience research. As much as youd like to tell your clients to go read The Elements of User Experience and call you back when they’re done, that won’t cut it in a professional services environment. David Sherwin creates a cheat sheet to help you pitch ...
  5 weeks ago

• 2010 Toyota Prius - positioning, hybrid system and interior design (on video)

  
  Re*Move — Authority: 109
  Just before I took off on a recent holiday, a man from Toyota came to pick up a (by then) not so shiny, white, new shape Prius that hed dropped with me the previous week. Its a sign of how much this car moves the game on from the previous generation vehicle that I was slightly sad to see it go. Weve not hidden the ...
  5 weeks ago

• Changing the Weather with QT by INdT

  
  Handful of Nothing — Authority: 92
  It all started like the video says. I got to Patricia, Ian and Tamara and asked them to do something really beautiful with QT 4.6 in mind. They got together for this really fast project and now they also did a small video to show how it was done. When they told me that they [...]
  5 weeks ago

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