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Aug 26, 2006
UI Design

Simplicity is Anything But

A fantastic blog entry on 37Signals’ Signal vs. Noise explores the complexity of creating effective, simple user experiences: Sometimes there’s a lot more to simple than meets the eye. To the customer, this is just a few obvious words in a small b...

Aug 25, 2006
Usability

KDE' New, Snazzy Start Menu

I found a video of the new start menu for KDE on the Web the other day. It’s actually pretty cool; it looks far more polished than previous versions I’ve seen, it’s resizable, and includes some nice integrated search functionality. One complaint ...

Aug 24, 2006
Apple

Apple Design Awards 2006

Every year, Apple celebrates the best-of-breed applications on their platform with the Apple Design Awards, which are presented at WWDC. This year’s winners include the fantastic text editor TextMate and the eBay power sellers’ tool, iSale. The aw...

Aug 24, 2006
Innovation

Onyx - Concept Mobile Phone

I just found a bolus of information on a concept phone produced by Synaptics, makers of touchpads everywhere and Pilotfish, a German/Taiwanese design firm. The concept incorporates some unique elements to enhance usability, such as automatically a...

Aug 23, 2006
UI Design

New UI Metaphors

An editorial on MacObserver has an interesting round-up of newer UI metaphors seeing some traction, and some that are a bit futher out there. The author, John Kheit, links out to a ton of interesting content including videos, prototypes, and resea...