Nice post outlining some of the UI changes being suggested for Firefox 3, together with a good overview of browser UI challenges and issues in general. gulfstream/2351
Piece on typical mistakes made in the sign-up process. Mostly common-sense points—Mistake #8: Not Telling Users How You’ll Use Their Information—though … gulfstream/2374
Fitts’s Law, usability, and making Office 2007 easier to use with a mouse. (Interesting side point about how an application like Office can be made … gulfstream/2146
Some interesting UI research projects. e.g. a way to increase speed and accuracy when using a finger on a touch-screen UI (YouTube video). gulfstream/2288
Home - MarkMail
archive of a whole bunch of mailing lists (not everything) nice interface though
inessential.com: Weblog: Comments for ‘On the design of the first-run assistant’
Sun Labs Lively Kernel
some strange javascript-powered web desktop thing that does many unusual things, and that only works properly in safari
Bad Designs - Table of Contents
Apple Human Interface Guidelines: Dialogs
Get A Free Song iTunes Promotion
er nice and easy 1, 2, 3 labelled steps to get your free song ... but the most obscure step is the unnumbered "do it now" link
Functioning Form - SxSW: OSX and Longhorn Development
first os x had no user testing--decions made by senior designers and jobs
Napkin Look & Feel
java theme to make apps look half-finished
touch-sensitive screen interface to google maps, etc. (video)
Picnik
on-lne, flash-based simple image edit tool. nice work, done about as well as could be expected.
ColorBrewer - Selecting Good Color Schemes for Maps
suggests good (visually distinct) colour schemes for maps (but useful for other purposes too)
Andy Budd::Blogography: Airport User Experience
cityofsound: Starflyer (and service), Schiphol (and soccer), Stansted (and signage)
famfamfam: free icons
free icons, windows/ie-style, somewhat muted in style
redesigns of the bloomberg terminal
conceptual redesigns (some quite radical) of the bloomberg terminal from ideo, happy cog
Banner Blindness: Old and New Findings (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
Ext 2.0 Windows
ext 2 demo of desktop-style, including task bar
Prototype UI
ui library for prototype