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Nov 21, 2006
UI Design

Making everyone happy does everything but that

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,...

Nov 21, 2006
Accessibility

Accessibility Virtual Brown Bag Talk

Anna Bradley, the CEO of Criterion 508 Solutions, will be giving a talk at the Access Board, a Federal agency for accessibility, on December 13th. Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be any clear sense of what Anna will actually be talking about....

Nov 18, 2006
Usability

Optimize your UI' readability - why Apple Mail sucks

One of my least-favorite pieces of software ever is Mail 2.x, included in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. What was a stable, reasonably performant, sensible, and usable mail client in previous iterations has become "hideously ugly," and "inflexible, inconsis...

Nov 16, 2006
Web Design

Font faces of the movers and shakers

Stuart Brown of Modern Life is Rubbish published an interesting article a couple days ago on the fonts used in Web 2.0 companies’ logotypes, including such gems as Interstate and Frutiger (I love those fonts). Unfortunately, he didn’t go into any ...

Nov 15, 2006
Web Design

Here' what your search engine thinks about Web standards

It seems you can’t go anywhere these days without hearing about web standards this or web standards that. Jeff Atwood on Coding Horror published an interesting blog post on Monday talking about the amount of care and respect Google appears to have...