Design Eye for the Usability Guy

May 20th, 2004

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.

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GUI Patent War Brewing

May 14th, 2004

Apple 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.

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Even the Big Guys Get Validation Wrong

May 13th, 2004

I 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 […]

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Sometimes Plain Text is Best

May 4th, 2004

Boing 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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