3 month ago
jonhicks : That design is money!
Andy Baio : Case study of redesigning the new Wells Fargo ATM user experience - Pentagram did nice work, though the buttons seem a bit too low contrast [via]
Rod Begbie : That design is money! - About the UI design of Wells Fargo ATMs. My decision to open a Wells Fargo account after moving to SF was largely influenced by the experience I had at one of their ATMs, so it's definitely a good design. [via] #
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4 month ago
nelson : Direct manipulation video player - Watch the teaser video; interesting UI for seeking in video
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13 month ago
nelson : iPhone accelerometer hack - Short little video of what would be possible if only Apple would open up the iPhone to third party developers
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17 month ago
jonhicks : Stylish 0.5a2 - userstyles.org - update to stylish in Alpha
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25 month ago
deusx : Doug Engelbart: The Demo - Google Video
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25 month ago
philgyford : Clickdensity - website heat maps for usability and information architecture - Interesting-looking thing for measuring where people click on your pages (although I haven't tried it).
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30 month ago
deusx : The Top 10 weirdest keyboards ever - Fosfor Gadgets - "Keyboards come in many shapes - from the simplest computer grey $9.99 standard 102-key keyboard to variants that seem to come straight out of a Star Trek episode."
plasticbag : The Top 10 weirdest keyboards ever is a list of the top ten weirdest keyboards ever. Duh. - Some of these keyboards are totally fucking weird, already. And there are eleven really, because they include the ZX Spectrum.
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31 month ago
philgyford : Yahoo open up their UI libraries... (plasticbag.org) - Links to all Yahoo's shiny developer things in one handy place for me to never get round to reading.
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35 month ago
plasticbag : Typeradio.org - a podcast and internet radio station about typography and design - The site is beautiful if you're into Flash and contains some nice interface and audio preview widgets. And it's about typography which never sucks...
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35 month ago
François Nonnenmacher : R.I.P. WYSIWYG - Jakob Nielsen praises Office 12 as the UI raw model
kayodeok : R.I.P. WYSIWYG - Results-Oriented UI Coming - Unfortunately, we've now reached the limits of the current GUI paradigm. Displaying commands in menus, toolbars, and dialog boxes works with a limited number of elements. But Microsoft Word 2003 has 1,500 commands, and users typically have no clue where t
deusx : R.I.P. WYSIWYG - Results-Oriented UI Coming (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) - "What You Get Is What You See"
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41 month ago
plasticbag : A (Near)-Complete List of Mac Keyboard Shortcuts - Terrifyingly fun list of keyboard shortcuts for hours of entertainment with your Mac laptop
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plasticbag : Buddy Bugs - Buddy Bugs is an ambient peripheral physical interface that represents Windows® Instant Messenger contact list, where people are represented by glass bugs on a leaf.
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45 month ago
Andy Baio : Homer Simpson uses tabbed browsing - looks like Safari on an old Mac [via] [via]
Kayode Okeyode : Homer Simpson uses tabbed browsing
plasticbag : Homer Simpson uses tabbed browsing - Dumb old link. I shouldn't have posted it, but I did because tabbed browsing is awesome and non-tabbed browsing sucks...
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plasticbag : How to control a computer system by tracking the movements of the nose... - I've been examining the way I move my head while reading this article to see if I could use my nose as the controller for a mouse pointer. Very impressed. Really interesting idea. Kind of want one.
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plasticbag : Flickr's fruit at the bottom - on bottom-of-the-page site navigation - Ah - after posting a couple of links yesterday about bottom-of-the-page sitemaps and referencing Mr Jones, I've just noticed that he's posted about it too. I've expressed some of my concerns in the comments, if you're interested.
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plasticbag : nutr.itio.us provides a more sophisticated interface with which to post to del.icio.us - Appears to include a way of deducing common tags for a link as well as aiding you navigate through your own tags. The interface doesn't quite scale to the sheer breadth of tags you might wish to use, however. I wonder how it could...
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plasticbag : bbc.co.uk/film gets reorganised - The homepage is now some form of portal to films across the BBC (which isn't immediately clear when you get there) - with the old site's frontpage now renamed BBC Movies and moved to a new URL but everything else still living under /films. Very strange.
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plasticbag : An interesting article on a dream cocoa client for del.icio.us - So this is a bit of a follow-up to a post I did a while back on tag-based bookmarks in safari which has had some interesting feedback. This article has some of the most interesting ideas that I've seen, and I'm definitely going to be thinking around this
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47 month ago
Ethan Marcotte : DropCopy - Rendezvous-enabled drag 'n' drop filesharing. Yes, please.
Steve Cook : DropCopy: Rendezvous powered file-sharing for OSX - Oh boy, does this fill a need; I've thought about writing something like it myself, only now I don't have to.
Rod Begbie : DropCopy - Shiny no-brainer local-file-sharing app for Mac networks. [via] #
deusx : 10base-t interactive | rendezvous enabled applications > DropCopy - "Easily and quickly send files and folders to multiple destinations across your LAN by simply dragging files onto recipients in a popup window."
plasticbag : DropCopy - Easily and quickly send files and folders to multiple destinations across your LAN - Interesting little application this - I've been thinking around something vaguely similar for a while. This has given me some possible UI pointers...
Richard Rutter : DropCopy - Easily send files to multiple recipients over Rendezvous (filed under Tools & software). [via Interconnected]
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53 month ago
doug : iTunes 4.5 released - Now includes embedded links within your own music library that link directly into the store via a smart search for artist, song, or album names. The store now integrates more QuickTime technology by allowing viewing of movie trailers and music videos dire
jkottke : Apple announces new version of iTunes - Apple announces new version of iTunes (iMix and Party Shuffle look interesting.)
Adam Gessaman : iTunes 4.6 is out - I can't find a changelog though.
plasticbag : iTunes 4.7 is a lifesaver! Now I can free up some space on my 40Gb iPod by getting rid of duplicate tracks - On the other hand, who in hell thought that using iTunes to sync your photos was a good idea? Surely iSync is the app for that? Except of course PC users don't have iSync - so now Mac design decisions are based on non-Mac users...
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