UI

Apple UI Counting Fail

by Andy Polaine on March 4, 2009

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I was just updating my Airport Express settings and noticed this rare Apple UI fail. Bad number sorting.

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Windows UI is so broken

by Andy Polaine on February 14, 2009

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Windows UI is so broken. Look at the hoops developers have to jump through to get people to just install a plug-in.

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Amazon Ass

February 13, 2009

Unfortunate but amusing combination of the subject line and Mail.app shortening the sender name from Amazon Associates.

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Interview and profile of Dan Saffer

February 2, 2009

Core77 have just posted an interview and profile I wrote on Dan Saffer and hhis new book, Designing Gestural Interfaces. Dan talks about his vision for future devices and the way design agencies need to shift to a much more multi-disciplinary way of working if they are to survive. I’ll just point you to “Talk [...]

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Homeland Security – Worst Alert Box Ever

January 2, 2009

I’m on the interactive jury for the Art Directors Club Awards this year, which I am very chuffed about. Not least because I get the chance to go to New York for the first time ever. Of course, the USA’s Department of Homeland Security being what it is, I have to give them plenty of [...]

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Amusing Fenec Preferences

December 28, 2008

Thought I had posted this weeks ago and found it loitering in my scheduled posts. Entertaining set of preferences descriptions for Fenec, Mozilla’s new mobile browser.

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Amazon Christmas Checkout

December 4, 2008

Just spotted Amazon’s Christmas-themed shopping cart. Sometimes it’s the little things that make all the difference.

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G-Speak – Back to VR Gloves Again?

November 17, 2008

g-speak overview from john underkoffler on Vimeo. It’s the gloves again. Part of me wants to believe G-Speak is really is a fantastic “spatial operating environment”. The mouse and keyboard are awkward, clunky and out-dated with plenty of problems and it’s time for a change. G-Speak is about freeing ourselves from those shackles, about working [...]

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Sprint’s Now Machine Data Overload

November 12, 2008

In keeping with the seemingly American obsession that more data one has the better (especially on TV), Sprint have launched a viral campaign called the Now Machine Widget. Kottke says, “I don’t know what this is or how it works or why Sprint is involved, but man is it fun to just let the data [...]

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LinkedIn’s Weird UI Shadows

July 11, 2008

Is it just me or does anyone else find LinkedIn’s new design tweaks weird on the perspective front? This rounded-corner box has a couple of random shadows at the bottom. The impression is that the bottom corners are lifting up, but the box remains square and the top has no shadows. Logically, that can only [...]

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