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Sep 25, 2006
Vista

Vista' New Start Menu

The Windows Vista love-in on my UI Design blog continues unabated! I was browsing through a surprisingly active thread on the Shell Revealed site about the design of the new Vista Start Menu. Not surprisingly, some people love the new Start menu, ...

Sep 24, 2006
Vista

Exposing Expose on Windows Vista

Simon on the (dot)Net released an awesome Vista utility (with source code, might I add), which duplicates the functionality of Apple’s Expose feature on OS X. It’s still a bit rough around the edges, but it’s an awesome example of what can be done...

Sep 24, 2006
UI Design

More Menus (or Aaron Ballman Calls BS on Me)

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...

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...