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Dangerous Features

Dangerous Features This is a screenshot of the menu bar in office being docked to the left side of the window. You may ask, why would someone wan...

Episode II - Desktop Wars - A new Mac

Many people are focusing on the release of Apple hardware using the intel x86 processor, but that's not the real news. The real news is that Apple has released x86 compatible software. It won'...

Interactive Art

Yesterday was the monthly meeting of BostonCHI, a group of people in the Boston area who get together and talk about UI stuff. Shameless plug, I'm the vice-chair, come join us next month. Geor...

AJAX and the Back button

In a traditional web application every link or form-submit brings you to a new page and adds a page into your navigation back stack. Now AJAX applications can create forms that don't add pages...

Quote of the week

"I love the smell of white-board marker in the morning. It smells like creativity. " - Greg Raiz 1/9/05

Group networked backup

Use Case: Every computer on my network installs a small piece of software called "Safety-net." Each safety-net computer backs up every other ...

Car Dashboard User Interface

Recently Mercedes showed the beginning of dynamic car interface design. In some respect cars have always had interface design only it's been more mechanical and dashboard design and less of a ...

Email Folders vs. File Folder

Why are email folders so different from file folders? Cut Copy Paste: You can cut copy and paste email folders and file folders but you can't move one to the other. Search: You can search emai...

Richer Browser UI Thumbnails

I was playing around with a couple of FireFox extentions that add some interesting thumbnailing capabilities to the browser and it reminded me of a sketch I made of adding rich thumbnail capab...

Searchable User Interface

Assume for a minute that you had a product with 1,000,000 features. Each feature has a unique function and performs a specific unique task. As a UI designer how would you approach this design ...