DiscBlaze 3.1 offers revamped user interface, more
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DiscBlaze CD/DVD burning utility gets
new interface
DiscBlaze CD/DVD burning utility gets
new interface
04/26/2004 08:53 AMRadical Breeze has released DiscBlaze 3.1, an update to their CD and
DVD burning utility for Mac OS X. The new version features an updated
interface that more closely models iTunes, adds AppleScript support
and makes other improvements. It's a free upgrade for current users;
it costs US$19 for others.
Apimac Clean Text gets revamped
interface
Apimac Clean Text gets revamped
interface
10/31/2003 02:58 PMApimac has updated Apimac Clean
Text -- a text formatting-unformatting application -- to version 3.0.
The new version sports a renovated interface. Buttons are now arranged
in five sections that are accessible by tab panes: Fix, Convert,
Encode, Change and Replace. Beneath the tabs are buttons for removing
formatting attributes from a text, removing empty lines, removing
multiple spaces, removing tab characters and more.
DiscBlaze 4 offers additional disc image
formats, more
DiscBlaze 4 offers additional disc image
formats, more
06/22/2004 10:44 AMRadical Breeze today announced the immediate availability of DiscBlaze
4, a new version of its CD and DVD burning software...
On Beyond Help: User Assistance and the
User Interface
On Beyond Help: User Assistance and the
User Interface
09/09/2002 06:29 AMZooming User Interface (ZUI)
Zooming User Interface (ZUI)
08/17/2004 04:46 PMHere's a
fascinating rap on a new way to do UI's.
It's called ZUI.
Always interesting in that.....
Found via
Advogato
Other pages on OS X user interface
Other pages on OS X user interface
06/05/2005 11:39 PMOther developers write about walking the user interface
line—trying to be consistent but also having to create custom
widgets to stay modern.
Michael Dupuis: “Sure there are
‘lesser’ elements available to us as developers, but they
often don’t have the ‘bling’ that users come to
expect.”
Dan
Wood: “We have to walk the line in our user interface
decisions all the time, trying to make an application look consistent
with the Mac interface, and also ‘modern.’”
User Interface Design
User Interface Design
06/14/2002 12:15 PM"(...) good design always involves a process of compromise."
The Zooming User Interface
The Zooming User Interface
08/15/2004 08:45 PMEven in the present day, the desktop metaphor still pervades, but
with increases in the amount of information available to any one
person, this metaphor is felt to be in need of a reworking. The
zooming user interface (ZUI) is an idea first discussed by Bederson
(1993) as a radical change to the way in which a person interacts with
a computer. This paper will initially discuss how a ZUI works,
followed by a review of the empirical literature available.
IBM Reflexive User Interface Builder
1.0.0
IBM Reflexive User Interface Builder
1.0.0
08/09/2004 11:49 PMA user interface building tool for Swing and Eclipse GUIs.
User Interface Design for Programmers
User Interface Design for Programmers
05/31/2004 11:33 PM
I read Joel
Spolsky's book over the weekend: "User Interface Design for Programmers." This is an
excellent guide to usability — for client apps and for Web
development.
The strength of the book is that it doesn't start by presenting
many hard-and-fast rules, but instead concetrates on general concepts
that you really need to understand to develop an effective user
interface. People Can't Read. People Can't Remember. People Can't
Control the Mouse. Design for Extremes. These principles then
naturally lead to more specific guidelines.
For example: you know how when you first learn CSS, you put a
textarea rule in your sheet to change the font in text boxes from that
ugly monospaced, Courier font to some slick variably-spaced font?
Looks nice, sure, but Joel demonstrates how hard it can be to edit for
some people. Sure, it's fine for you, but you're young and you have
an optical, USB mouse, and you've been using computers since you got
out of diapers.
Sadly, however, everyone isn't you. Some users don't have your
eyesight, motor skills, or experience, and your tiny little
variably-spaced font is now a problem for them. Lower-case L's, for
instance, are now just one pixel wide. A lower-case I differs from a
lower-case L by only a single pixel. If two lower-cased L's are next
to each other ("allegory"), there's only one pixel of "gutter" space
between them — ever tried getting the text insert cursor to land
exactly between them? You're literally trying to hit a 1-pixel wide
target.
Upon reading this, I went back to an app I was writing and changed
all text inputs and text areas to Courier New, 12px. It doesn't look
as nice, but I'll concede that it's easier and clearer to edit.
Sometimes usability comes at the price of how things look, but so it
goes.
Joel touches on the user model and system model that I read about
earlier this year in Don Norman's "The Design of Everyday Things." Simply put, a user
forms a model in his or her head about how your app works. That model
may have nothing to do with how it really works (the system model),
but that's your problem, not the user's. Your goal as an interface
designer, is to make the implementation model (how the interface
represents the system model) match the user model as closely as
possible.
The book is full of good ideas and really solid, non-frilly advice.
Joel's obvious experience saturates every page (I gather he did the
UI for the ISP Juno, and was on the Microsoft Excel team). It's
full-color with glossy pages and scads of screen caps.
I'll finish here by hand-typing an excerpt that's so good I'll risk
the copyright lawyers. It addresses a point I talked about a while ago when I was struggling with the non-confirmity of
the Linux interface.
I've seen companies where management prides themselves on doing
things deliberately different from Microsoft. "Just because
Microsoft does it, doesn't mean it's right," they brag, and then
proceed to create a gratuitouisly different interface from the one
that people are used to. Before you start chanting the mantra "just
because because Microsoft does it, doesn't mean it's right," please
consider two things.
One, even if it's not right, if Microsoft is doing it in a popular
program like Word, Excel, Windows, or Internet Explorer, millions of
people are going to think that it's right, or at least fairly
standard. [...and] if you refuse to do it on some general religious
principle that Bill Gates is the evil Smurf arch-nemesis Gargamel then
you are just gratuitiously ruining your program so that you can feel
smug and self-satisifed [...]
Two, don't be so sure it's not right. Microsoft spends more money
on usability testing than you do; they keep detailed statistics based
on millions of tech support phone calls; and there's a darn good
chance that they did it that way because more people can figure out
how to use it that way.
As much as I hate to admit Microsoft is right, amen to
that.
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UIDK (User Interface Development Kit)
UIDK (User Interface Development Kit)
10/29/2003 11:26 AMHomepage
Resolver User Layer Interface 0.23
Resolver User Layer Interface 0.23
06/03/2004 06:48 PMRULI implements a library aimed at querying DNS SRV resource records.
Resolver User Layer Interface 0.25
Resolver User Layer Interface 0.25
06/09/2004 05:18 PMRULI implements a library aimed at querying DNS SRV resource records.
User Interface System Requirements
User Interface System Requirements
05/22/2004 11:12 AMXUL Defines New User Interface Options
XUL Defines New User Interface Options
10/28/2002 11:23 AMResolver User Layer Interface 0.28
Resolver User Layer Interface 0.28
06/30/2004 07:24 PMRULI implements a library aimed at querying DNS SRV resource records.
Report: User Interface Issues
Report: User Interface Issues
03/14/2005 05:07 PMinconsistencies in Apple software, various design issues
Resolver User Layer Interface 0.29
Resolver User Layer Interface 0.29
08/15/2004 05:59 AMRULI implements a library aimed at querying DNS SRV resource records.
Location X gets tweaked user interface,
more
Location X gets tweaked user interface,
more
10/30/2003 01:40 PMShareware authors Alex Keresztes and Greg Novick have updated
Location X, the
US$20 location manager for Mac OS X, to version 2.0, which offers a
new user interface, new customization options and more.
GLUI User Interface Library
GLUI User Interface Library
03/26/2005 09:25 PMGLUI webpage has moved
Palm OS User Interface Guidelines
Palm OS User Interface Guidelines
12/06/2002 08:01 AMMac User Interface Design for New
Developers
Mac User Interface Design for New
Developers
10/10/2002 09:55 AMUser-Interface Designers Take Note
User-Interface Designers Take Note
06/05/2005 10:47 PMSpencer
Critchley is going to travel with a hammer from now on.
Watch Out!
History of the Graphical User Interface
History of the Graphical User Interface
11/25/2002 09:54 AMResolver User Layer Interface 0.22
Resolver User Layer Interface 0.22
05/31/2004 05:41 AMRULI implements a library aimed at querying DNS SRV resource records.
nmap Graphical User Interface
nmap Graphical User Interface
06/15/2004 08:17 AMNmapSi 0.2 Beta is Released!!
Giving Users Control Over the User
Interface
Giving Users Control Over the User
Interface
12/01/2002 07:55 AM"Essentially AllTheWeb allows the user to choose different text sizes
for SOME of the text on the screen using style sheets."
Wave Goodbye to the Ordinary User
Interface
Wave Goodbye to the Ordinary User
Interface
05/04/2004 11:57 PMOpen the door to Andy Wilson's room, the home of a modern day wizard.
No bat's toes or eel skins here. Plenty of wires, webcams, a ceiling
mounted laser pointer, speakers, pieces and parts from disassembled
computers, and a collection of lamps. Serious toys for a man who found
his passion combining hardware and software.
Mastery, Mystery and Misery of the User
Interface
Mastery, Mystery and Misery of the User
Interface
09/01/2004 11:32 AMJakob serves up a classic analogy to describe the current state of UI
design.
Apple gets iTunes user interface patent
Apple gets iTunes user interface patent
05/12/2004 02:52 AMApple Computer Inc. has been awarded a patent by the U.S. Patent and
Trademark office for the iTunes interface. It's the latest in a series
of patents Apple has applied for specific to its music software
technology, according to
Cnet. Apple
has previously been awarded patents for other parts of iTunes,
including the ability to stream songs over a network to another copy
of the program.
Notes and Tips: User Interface Design
Notes and Tips: User Interface Design
06/05/2005 11:12 PM Good Mac user-interface design isn't always easy....
Microsoft Research: User Interface
Prototypes
Microsoft Research: User Interface
Prototypes
09/20/2004 10:35 PMDaniel
C. Robbins is a 3D User Interface Designer working at Microsoft
Research. His current projects include visual presentation of large
information spaces and scenarios for intelligent environments.
Java’s Basic User Interface Components
Java’s Basic User Interface Components
10/28/2003 11:06 PM
To simplify user interaction and make data entry easier, you
can use java controls. Controls are components, such as buttons,
labels and text boxes, that can be added to containers like frames,
panels and applets. The Java.awt package provides an integrated set of
classes to manage user interface components.
Group for User Interface Research -
DENIM
Group for User Interface Research -
DENIM
01/06/2004 02:40 PMDenim is a really interesting-looking early prototyping tool for web
sites. You need to watch the video to really understand it.
Unfortunately (but smartly) it really is designed for tablet input,
which I don't have, so it's kinda hard to try out.
Longhorn's ''task based'' user interface
Longhorn's ''task based'' user interface
12/02/2003 01:45 AMIn this
Longhorn FAQ,
Paul Thurrott touts Longhorn's "task based" user interface as superior
to traditional desktop user interfaces. I'm sure there are better user
interfaces, but I doubt of this is it. For anyone who thinks a task
based user interface is a good idea, I offer two words:
Perl/Mason User Interface Developer
Perl/Mason User Interface Developer
06/14/2004 06:13 PMPlatform Trust Team, Amazon.com - United States, WA, Seattle
(2004-06-14)
Java’s Advanced User Interface
Components
Java’s Advanced User Interface
Components
11/11/2003 11:39 AM
Last time, we mastered some basic UI components and worked on
how to add them to panels, organize their layout, and manage their
events. Having covered all the basic techniques that we’ll need to get
started with Java interface programming in our first article,
Java's Basic User Interface Components,
we will move on to some advanced UI components. Today, I’ll be
covering scrolling lists, scrollbars, and canvases, and their
functionality. It is amazing to see how many of complex tasks are
simplified with the help of these advanced user interface components.
The Commercial Feasibility of a
Next-Generation User Interface
The Commercial Feasibility of a
Next-Generation User Interface
05/28/2002 12:30 PMCreate a Custom User Interface with PPX
For Pocket PC
Create a Custom User Interface with PPX
For Pocket PC
12/30/2003 12:06 PMBrightHand Dec 30 2003 11:21AM ET
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