As everyone and their mother probably knows, now, Microsoft is planning on releasing an iPod competitor in time for Christmas 2006. According to Engadget, Zune is actually the name of the brand and the device, and there are, supposedly, more Zune ...
I am a huge, huge, huge advocate of correctly supporting mnemonics and keyboard shortcuts throughout your application. It was, for this reason, that I was very excited when I first learned that you could do the exact same thing for web pages. Mova...
I just found this on YouTube: it’s a video of a new feature with unintended consequences in the video game, MLB 2k6. Basically, a player can jump up to the top of a stadium wall to catch a ball that would otherwise be a home run. Unfortunately, th...
I’m sure this will come as old-hat to everyone out there, but on the off-chance you’ve never seen it, I highly recommend checking out and playing around with the CSS Zen Garden. CSS Zen Garden is a demonstration of what is achievable through corre...
The always-fantastic Coding Horror blog discusses Edward Tufte and his crusade for information density: These days, you rarely see screens packed densely with content and hundreds of links, but that's what Tufte seems to be asking for. We even ma...
Generally, most people don’t associate great design with Microsoft, but the company has been making great strides in this area for the past few years. I just found a link to the official Microsoft Design website through Jensen Harris this morning,...
Joe Clark, author of Building Accessible Websites (which needs a cover less-reminiscent of a certain web meme, in my opinion), wrote an impassioned tirade against the perceived uselessness of the W3C’s WCAG 2 guidelines back in May. Joe makes a lo...
Cider is the next-generation forms designer for creating Windows Presentation Foundation (formerly “Avalon”) user interfaces from within Visual Studio. Here are a few resources to get you started with it: MSDN TV: Introducing Cider - Mike Harsh...
I just stumbled across the Identityworks website, by way of Digg. Although I’ve never seen Identityworks before, it’s rapidly becoming a new favorite. Dating all the way back 1998, the site catalogues brand and logo changes from across the Fortune...
This is an oldie, but a goodie. Jenny Lam, Creative Director for the Windows Ux organization, MSX, did an interview with Robert Scoble for Channel 9 a while back, where she chatted with him about “this whole Experience thing.” You can see the 40 ...
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