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User Experience
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Design, General, User Experience
Colts vs. who?! Or Watching For Your Biases
Gotta admit, I know nothing about football. Our family’s sports fanatic is Robert, my brother-in-law. As I arrived at his place, my first question was “who’s playing”. Yeah, that’s how knowledgeable I am. It turns out that sometimes ignorance is, indeed, bliss.
When the score became 24-17 in the Saints favor, I told [...] -
User Experience
Color Oracle
Bernhard Jenny in Switzerland wrote Color Oracle, a nifty and free utility for simulating color blindness that no self-respecting programmer, UX practitioner, or web site designer should be without. It runs on Mac, Windows, and Linux.
I downloaded and tried the Mac version. It works well. When you run it, a small icon installs itself on [...] -
UIs I Like, User Experience
OmmWriter
This is a post about writing.
See, after I read Rands’ review of OmmWriter, I sceptically downloaded the program. I ran it. And…
And I took a deep breath. No, not the kind of deep breath you take before your first bungee jump. Or the kind you take when you’re just about to [...] -
UIs I Like, User Experience
Google Home Page Is Now Simpler Than Ever
Google has quietly updated its home page, it is now cleaner than ever:
It remains clean if you type your search query and press Enter. Other items fade in quickly if you move the mouse inside the browser window.
This works on all browsers that I tried except Internet Explorer 6 (it works on IE8, I [...]
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UIs I Like, User Experience
iPhone’s Stocks App
I’ve always liked the iPhone’s Stocks app, even in version 1.0. In addition to the eye candy, the app showed out of the box thinking. Most other charts have the axis labels neatly rounded, e.g. if the price range is between 11 and 29, the Y axis labels would be 10, 20, and [...]
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Design, UIs I Dislike, User Experience
Wher iz the Diktionary?
Until April 2005, some applications provided a dictionary, but each had its own. Then Mac OS 10.4 Tiger was introduced and included a system-wide dictionary: teach it the word “Hisham” in Mail, for example, and all the other Mac programs now knew that Hisham is not a mistake (though some friends might disagree!)
I thought [...] -
UIs I Like, User Experience
The Age of Folders
What if the folder’s icon gave you an idea of how often you use it? In real life, a wrinkle here and a scratch there lets you know that the folder wasn’t just purchased, but on our virtual desktops, they all look spiffy. Keith Lang takes a stab at this and a pretty [...]
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UIs I Like, User Experience
Aero Shake
Last week, Windows 7 became available for public download and beta testing. Paul Thurrott reports on a new feature called Aero Shake:
“Simply click and hold on the grabbable area of any floating (non-maximized) window and shake your hand left and right vigorously. When you do so the first time, all other open windows [...] -
Design, User Experience
New Icons in iWork 09
Sebastiaan de With provides a nice roundup of the UI design changes in iWork 09, newly released by Apple.
Size Does Matter
The icon changes in particular caught my attention. But where young Sebastiaan sees “all sorts of nice UI changes and icons”, this middle aged man sees (no pun intended) a welcome relief to my [...] -
Cedrus, Design, Software Development, User Experience
Free iPhones For All
OK, so it’s not quite free for everybody, ya know. I’ve done dumb things before, but c’mon! It’s free to all Cedrus employees who have been with the company a year or more.
Why?
It’s simple, really. With all due to respect to Samsung’s Instinct and other iPhone wannabe recent offerings, the iPhone currently has no competition. [...]
about me
My name is Hisham Abboud. Curious Chap is my blog about hardware design, user interfaces, and other related topics. During daytime, I play at Cedrus. I still haven't decided what I want to do when I grow up.
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