Design By Fire has a fun Queer Eye inspired design make over for usability guru Jakob Nielsen’s boring but practical Guidelines for Visualizing Links.
Design Eye for the Usability Guy
May 20th, 2004GUI Patent War Brewing
May 14th, 2004Apple is going mad on UI patents while Microsoft assembles hefty patent Arsenal.
Is this a patent arms race? I am not a fan of UI patents.
Even the Big Guys Get Validation Wrong
May 13th, 2004I ordered a computer for someone from Dell last night. When I got to the end of the order, I mistyped a digit on the credit card number and the form was redisplayed with an “invalid credit card number” error. I added spaces between the digits (as they appear on the card) to [...]
Sometimes Plain Text is Best
May 4th, 2004Boing Boing featured a drop down from hell last week. Is a mega enumeration like this really necessary? Why not use a simple text field?
I find drop down boxes with years to be one of the saddest examples of enumeration overkill. I can type my birth date far faster than [...]
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