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User Interface Design for Software Developers - Update

User Interface Design for Software Developers - Update For anyone in the Boston area I will be speaking tomorrow at MIT on user interface design f...

Fullscreen Google Video and YouTube

One of the drawbacks of Google Video, YouTube and many other online video sites is that the video can't be played full screen from a flash player. Well it looks like Adobe thought the same thi...

More on the CSS sucking

More on the CSS sucking A couple weeks ago I managed to get a bunch of people upset by saying that CSS sucks. The comments were A) I don't know CS...

Open source government

Recently our president signed a bill called The Federal Funding Accountability And Transparency Act Of 2006. The bill will create a searchable database allowing anyone to easily perform search...

Ten reasons why CSS sucks

CSS is certainly an improvement on plain old HTML but it's limitations are staggering and the lack of industry support will continue to hold back designers for many years to come unless we beg...

The future of web-chrome

This is part three in a series. Parts 1 and Part 2 covered explorations of Office UI chrome. This article looks at what's next. As part of my work at Raizlabs I work with many companies that a...

Office + Firefox tabs

When feeling creative, don't fight it. A comment from Augusto asked what the Tabs and History would look like in the Firefox exploration. My initial answer is 'I don't know.' While that's sti...

Firefox Ribbon UI and Screen Space

As a follow up to my Office 2007 + Firefox article a number of people have commented about the vertical space that the ribbon could take up. A couple comments... - If you haven't used Office 2...

Office 2007 UI in Firefox

This is part 2 in a three part exploration of browser interfaces. Initially I started looking at how you could use the current interface metaphor to improve and extend functionality. I then st...

Explorations in Firefox UI

I few months ago I was contacted by the folks at Firefox to do some visual explorations for Firefox 2.0. Although we where only officially doing visual explorations we did take some extra time...