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Sep 23, 2006
Vista

Vista and Menus

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2006/september#thu-21-menu_bars_windowsAssuming you’ve used either Windows Vista or Office 12, you have probably noticed a distinct lack of menus (in the traditional sense, at least) in any of these applications. J...

Sep 22, 2006
Apple

Who is Jonathan Ive?

Business Week’s next issue has an article exploring Jonathan Ive’s backstory, what he does, and what makes him tick. A fascinating exploration into the “man behind the curtain” at Apple. Ive invests his design dollars in state-of-the-art prototyp...

Sep 21, 2006
Branding

Propagandizing Propaganda

My friend Rob forwarded me a link to an interview on AIGA about Aleksandar Macasev’s Joseph Goebbels Project: I am not trying to [create a hero out Goebbels by elevating Goebbels as an icon of information and disinformation], but part of the point...

Sep 20, 2006
Windows

All Shell all the Time

The Windows Shell team has a new aggregated blog at shellrevealed.com, which includes posts from everyone from Raymond Chen to Dave Vronay. A great way to stay on top of what’s happening with the team that is most critical to the Windows user expe...

Sep 20, 2006
Usability

Joel on Unusable Mobile Phones

Joel Spolsky rips into Sprint’s new LG Fusic phone: All the "tipping point" theories in the world won’t protect Sprint from the basic truth that the LG Fusic user interface could basically serve as an almost complete textbook for a semester-long c...