I decided I would split the info that was present in the sknoblog sidebar into two sidebars: one for stuff here on sknoblog, and one for stuff elsewhere on the Web. As usual, what should have been a fairly trivial bit of minor surgery took a nasty turn when I foolishly decided to make this…
Catégorie : User Interface Design
OZÉ: Welcome to your Home 2.0
OZÉ is a venture I’ve been involved with for a long time. A new version of their website came online just a few minutes ago. I should know, since I designed it, and put it there :). Yes, OZÉ is still alive and kicking, and some of the products actually exist. Hopefully, they will soon…
IntelliAdmin.com: The 5 sins of Vista
Check out IntelliAdmin.com: The 5 sins of Vista written by a Microsoft fan. I haven’t tried Vista yet (and won’t bother unless I have to, because my hardware is too slow to run it adequately). The one thing that might make me upgrade from XP is a less brain-dead file browser. But the one-two punch…
Coding Horror: There Are No Design Leaders in the PC World
There Are No Design Leaders in the PC World is an interesting and thoughtful article, written by someone who can’t be suspected of being an Apple/Mac zealot. It features snippets of interviews with Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs who talks about the role and importance of design, usability, and about the kind of people who work…
iWantOne
In case you’ve been living on a cave on Mars and haven’t heard about Apple’s announced iPhone, then I envy you. I’m not a big gadget-junkie. I don’t own an iPod, or that much techy gear. My phone is an old Nokia (and my recent ramblings about its simple qualities seem more laughable than ever).…
Phone smarts
I remember rotary dials with immense fondness. I used to play with them all the time as a child. What a sensual and whimsical interface. The first push-botton phones were much more efficient of course, but they took all the quirkiness and poetry out of the dialing experience. Fast forward a few decades. The first…
GUI laziness
As I mentioned recently, ripping-off graphical user interface designs is common practice, and harks back to the beginning of the Mac OS / Windows « competition ». More recently (although it was actually five years ago!), when Apple released Mac OS X with its « Aqua » interface, translucent, glassy/watery widgets started popping up all over the web. Last…
Google Reader
I do most of my websurfing using a so-called news aggregator application. Instead of surfing to individual websites, you subscribe to their RSS feed from your news aggregator, which then sucks in the news from all over the web so you can read it all in one place. Until now, I’ve been using NetNewsWire on…
Workflow: The devil is in the details
There’s a lot of talk on the Web about the upcoming new version of Windows known as Vista (which is only a few years late). It’s also been noted that Windows’ new interface, « Aero » is a total rip-off of Mac OS X’s interface « Aqua » (See a detailed comparison here or a few screenshots here.). Which…
tiny Radio Vince
Hot on the footsteps of Radio Vince and mini Radio Vince (at the top of this page), here comes tiny Radio Vince, which I will henceforth use to allow playback of a single song. Thanks to tiny Radio Vince, you won’t have to wade through 30 plus songs to listen to my new releases, and…