Jan Miksovsky, formerly of Microsoft, and presently of Cozi (a stealthy Seattle startup), is a huge believer in the power of task-oriented user interfaces. Five years ago, Jan published Microsoft’s official Inductive User Interface Guidelines on M...
For those of you browsing the site directly, you may notice that things look a little…strange today. I’m playing around with the templates and trying to convert the site over to a three-column layout. There are a few things not behaving like they ...
Pop quiz: what was the correct size of an OK button back in Mac OS 8? If you answered “I have no idea,” you would be in the same boat I was only a few minutes ago. It turns out that the correct size for your OK and Cancel buttons on Mac OS 8 was 5...
Apple’s yearly bring-out-the-faithful shindig, WWDC, kicked off this morning with Steve Jobs’s keynote. I read through the coverage at engadget, and I must say that I am distinctly underwhelmed. Sure, the dual-proc Mac Pro is a lusty piece of hard...
The tab control is a fantastic tool for grouping large numbers of related UI elements into a limited amount of space. Jennifer Tidwell, author of Designing Interfaces, provides a set of reasons, use cases and common designs for correctly applying ...
