233 posts from 2006
I found a fun, little page on an Aussie web design site, Max Design that contains a good 50+ CSS-styled horizontal and vertical lists for navigation: http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic
Felix Turner, a Flash developer at Brightcove, built a super-nifty swirly, spinny “web 2.0-ish” Flickr picture browser that searches upon tags and returns its results in a nifty little UI. Perhaps not mind-blowing, but it is fun, especially the w...
For as long as I’ve been involved in UI design, I have considered the Apple Human Interface Guidelines to be the gold-standard of User Experience guidelines. They are available on Apple’s developer website, and are well-worth reading, regardless o...
Mike Davidson, fellow Seattleite and CEO of Newsvine, has a handy tutorial on making your website mobile device-friendly in just a couple minutes. His approach, in contrast to the potentially unsupported approach of using ‘mobile device web standa...
Mauricio Perez, a Microsoft Technical Account Manager (or TAM), has an extensive survey of creating an effective User Experience for Windows Mobile 5.0 devices at WindowsForDevices.com. The article is fairly broad, covering everything from the evo...
Design of Everyday Things Donald Norman’s seminal book on great design in everday life introduced the notion of User Experience to…me, at least. This has been one of my favorite books in this field for as long as I’ve been interested in it. Alt...
Designing Interfaces Jennifer Tidwell, a UI designer at a major mathematical/scientific software company, has written what is, in my opinion, the book on UI Design Patterns. This book is a fantastic resource for quickly and easily replicating s...
Don’t Make me Think I picked up Steve Krug’s book on common-sense web usability a few years ago. It’s quite enjoyable, but I feel like it’s directed at absolute neophytes to both web design and User Experience.
UI Design for Programmers This book from former Microsoft Program Manager, Joel Spolsky, covers the basics of good UI design in the least-dry manner I’ve ever had the pleasure of reading. This is a fantastic introductory book on creating a good...
I just upgraded my blog from Movable Type 3.2 to 3.3, and I appear to be running into a few issues. Hopefully, this post will find the isues resolved. Otherwise, I may just give it up and migrate to Wordpress (like I should’ve done a while ago :-P...
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