The tab control is a fantastic tool for grouping large numbers of related UI elements into a limited amount of space. Jennifer Tidwell, author of Designing Interfaces, provides a set of reasons, use cases and common designs for correctly applying ...
Apple’s yearly bring-out-the-faithful shindig, WWDC, kicked off this morning with Steve Jobs’s keynote. I read through the coverage at engadget, and I must say that I am distinctly underwhelmed. Sure, the dual-proc Mac Pro is a lusty piece of hard...
The Ribbon is the biggest new feature in Office 2007, and probably the biggest new feature for the past few releases of the product. It’s an incredibly cool new feature, and makes Office 2007 significantly easier to use, in my opinion. I’ve seen ...
Paris Hilton claims she’s going celibate for a year. Unlike Rivers Cuomo, I think she’s a damned liar.
Since Tiger shipped in early 2005, Mail.app has gone from being one of my favorite mail clients around, to being my absolute least favorite mail client. It frequently displays unintelligible warnings like “The message could not be saved,” or it si...
I, like many of you, spend most days thinking about how to put forth the most professional and attractive experience possible in my software. I used to think that as long as I could create high-quality, professional-looking software with a fantast...
Drunkenbatman wrote a scathing review of the Meetro for OS X Alpha preview last December. I read his complaints about it last year when it was first published, and it caused me to go give their Windows version a shot. I found that the Windows vers...
Found through BrandChannel.com (of course): Interbrand in association with Business Week published a report on the best brands of 2006 (watch out, it’s a PDF). Topping the charts, not surprisingly, was Coca-Cola. What did surprise me, though, wa...
I am a bad little radio button I am a well-behaved radio button Notice the difference in the behavior of these two radio buttons? Try clicking on the text that accompanies the first radio button, and then try the second one. When you ...
Alright, so this post has nothing to do with UI Design, but it has everything to do with Experience (yeah, with a capital ‘E’). That is, it has everything to do with the Developer Experience. You see, developers create software. With tasty, lickab...