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Massive numbers of mobile phones
The mobile phone presents a lot of interesting opportunities - of which, I believe, only a handful have been taken so far
Kindle is not going to change a thing
I could not agree more that Kindle is not really going anywhere - eInk on the other hand certianly is. The UI challanges are fantastic!
Going freelance
Garrett Dimon is going it alone again. Great article - I hear everything that is being said
Designing effective applications
Jared Spool presents some excellent points you should always take into account
Virgin America safety video
The new airline on the block are creating quite a stir. Customer experience - the way forward!
URI style
Wise words from Tim Berners-Lee. Why are so many URIs appalingly crap? More on this soon...
Prototype user interaction devices
Nice summary of what researchers are working on
Get style in Javascript
This is always really tricky, but this is a good go at a function to do it and is very useful
How to foster a culture of innovation
Tolerate mavericks and allow the eureka moment - as long as they are nice people...
Show your clients you are thinking of them
Okay so they are not all that innovative now that they have been published, but interesting for ideas of your own
Animated product catalogue
Very cool - just what you have always wanted to see a product catalogue do
The 7% solution
So think about this one. Then think about it again. Now apply it to your own market sector.
Matt Stuart photography
This guy must carry his camera poised and ready at all times. Some great artwork here
Lift design
Not UI (although many lift control panels need better thinking about) but this collection of lifts from around the world is great. However, a glass floor lift - Not me...
Windows Mobile is appallingly bad
Been using it all day and it is rotten. I mean, why have both a "Wifi" and a "Wireless LAN" control panel - both of which do different things???
KDE 4 goes RC1
Apparently not finished on the UI polish yet - but looking damn cool
No comments found here
New scientest look at web comments and why they tend to the abusive side of a conversation
Being honest about experience
20 years in the web industry?? Tell it like it is
Easy to use mobiles
Massive gap in the market here - and still not filled. Warning - shockingly bad web-site
Firefox 3 sees Beta 1
Must be something in the air - all the browsers (minus IE) are getting great upgrades just now
Book light
Beautiful concept - if it sees the market this will go down very well
Wifi radio?
There are lots of UI possibilities here (do one thing well) - although I do want to know how on earth you would enter a WEP password on the demo device...
Overloading Javascript functions
Great article from John Resig about function overloading - my preference is objects for typical use cases though
Browser engeines unleashed
The rendering engine is the important bit and they are getting better and better
Lots of technical detail from the CSS working group
They have been busy lately - and sound like they know they need to be
Hooray for eye candy!
Once you have the basic functionality nailed - what makes people buy your product? DESIGN
Marketing is not a dirty word
Of course not. UX and marketing are entirely complimentary - when your UX and marketing people work well together, all are happy
Wekbet gets the VIDEO on as well
Following the Opera guys, the Webkit folks have been at it as well - great things are happening with these two browsers
Android does the Webkit
Webkit is a fantastic rendering engine and it is great to see it being used more and more
Apple has set the standard
And others are failing to live up to it - looks like Windows Mobile has got very little going for it (a cursor on a mobile???)
The long wow
This is it, totally bob on. You want people to constantly enjoy using your UI
How to engage a design team
Design is a two way process (if you want to get the most out of it) - some ideas from the Adaptive Path team
Newspaper clippings
A comedy of errors
Video tag and 3D canvas in Opera!
Very exciting development from Opera - looking forward to some canvas 3D documentation...
Breaking UX down
User Experience involves a lot of different skills. This is a great breakdown of what is involved in the various aspects
Common usability issues
Reordering last weeks list of problems - some of these really annoy me when I am actually looking for something
The art of hyperlinking
As with many things, top of the list when using hyperlinks is use some common sense...
Tactile display technology from Nokia
Having a touch display which can move opens a lot of interesting opportunities
Using the space dimension
Using space is becoming more and more important - and it offers an incredible number of opportunities
State of the art with CSS
Still good to see the working group pushing on - shame that the modules we really wan (Advanced layout and Grid layout) are still only being explored...
How to tell when a web-page sucks
Fantastic flow chart with a nice simple formula to follow (it is funny cos it is true)
White is the new white
Is white cool just now? Or is it black? Keeping up with the trends...
What is design?
So many types of design - many are well defined here