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Managing UI Complexity
Interface complexity is an issue every designer wrestles with when designing a reasonably sophisticated application. A complex interface can reduce user effectiveness, increase the learning curve of the application, and cause users to feel intimidated and overwhelmed.
Please don't use pie charts
I don't like pie charts. I don't like them because they fail to convey information. They do that because people have a really hard time ju...
Steve Jobs on why Apple doesn’t do market research
An Interface and Product Design blog by Joshua Porter
Recreating the THX Deep Note - EarSlap
Procedural music, art, computation and some other things.
Typeface by Toyota. The iQ font Designed By A Moving Car.
A blog about the best creativity and design in the world.
Examples of Extreme Minimalism in Web Design
As a follow up on last week’s roundup of 105 Examples of Clean and Minimal Twitter Apps , I thought this week would be the time to share with everyone examples of extreme minimalism in web design , and how with minimal elements, when properly used, so much can be achieved.
IE6 Must Die (along with 7 and 8)
One of the trending topics on Twitter currently is “ IE6 Must Die “, which are mainly retweets to a blog post entitled “ IE6 Must Die for the Web to Move On “. This is certainly true, IE6 has many rendering bugs and lacks support for so many things that it is simply a nightmare to work with. The amount of time and…
Wolfram Alpha and hubristic user interfaces
Stubbornness and disrespect, programming languages and operating systems, obsessive epistemology and formalist propaganda, Austrian economics and contemporary verse
The TED Augmented Reality Hoax
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Writing Microcopy
An Interface and Product Design blog by Joshua Porter
Top Programming Fonts
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Magic Ink
This draft was released March 15, 2006. Please email comments to bret worrydream.com . You can also download the PDF .
Milton Glaser: Ten Things I Have Learned
Milton Glaser (b.1929) is among the most celebrated graphic designers in the United States. He opened Milton Glaser, Inc. in 1974, and continues to produce an astounding amount of work in many fields of design to this day.
Beautiful Horizontally Centered Menus/Tabs/List. No CSS hacks. Full cross-browser.
A simple cross-browser method of centering tabbed menus with pure CSS and no hacks.
Daring Fireball: Complex
Gall’s Law and the iPhone.
Designing to Sell
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Jakob Nielsen: Mega Drop-Down Navigation Menus Work Well
Large, rectangular menus group navigation options to eliminate scrolling and use typography, icons, and tooltips to explain users' choices.