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A while back, I created a table detailing every system color from every official Windows theme in existence. I keep moving or misplacing this page for some reason, but the link below works: Here’s the table of Windows system colors in its entire...
Slate’s posted a tremendously embarassing-looking unclassified Powerpoint deck from the CIA. The twelve pages present a sort-of who’s who guide of Powerpoint design mistakes. I don’t really fault the CIA procurement executive who created it, thoug...
A co-worker of mine was nice enough to update my Windows system color chart with the Royale theme from Windows XP Media Center Edition. You can find the updated chart at its original location. Thanks, Moneta!
Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror has a truly spectacular example of bad UI design up on his website today. It’s so bad, in fact, that it has been dugg 1087 times. Wow. The piece of UI in question is a VB-based wrapper around the fantastically powerful...
Joel Spolsky has an interesting essay up on his site entitled Choices = Headaches, which explores the myriad options available in Windows Vista for…leaving your computer: Every time you want to leave your computer, you have to choose between nine,...
Back in July, I talked about the important role that fun plays in great user experiences. A sense of fun, playfulness, or adventurousness goes a long way towards making your software or website more inviting to current or potential customers. Of c...
Jan Miksovsky talks about unexpected value found in ‘crude’ prototyping: A counter-intuitive principle of soliciting early design feedback is that people reviewing a highly polished design may concentrate on superficial details and overlook fundam...
Dan Saffer, a Senior Interaction Designer at Adaptive Path, is the guest of the latest conversation on the Inkwell.vue. Dan recently released a book entitled Designing for Interaction: Creating Smart Applications and Clever Devices. I haven’t had ...
A while back my dev lead, Paul, pointed out to me that all of the new signage going up inside of Microsoft was printed in Segoe, the new Windows Vista font. I might not have ever noticed this had he not pointed it out. Naturally, when I heard abou...
Aaron Ballman left a comment on this blog last night, raising a good point about needing to pony up a solution to my “I hate menus” dilemma. Unfortunately, I’m not certain what the best solution would be, at least not universally. I don’t think t...
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