Jun 25, 2008

FF3 - Ugly no more

You have to give Mozilla’s design team credit for trying to make the new default theme for Mac Firefox look “native,” but to anyone barely familiar with Apple’s UI design, it is a horrible facsimile. The big back button cluster was laughable during beta, and it’s even more ridiculous in the full feature release. [...]

May 06, 2008

a WinMo phone with nice UI? Has Hell frozen over?

HTC premiered their new Touch Diamond handset today, and judging by the pictures, it looks like someone actually layered on a nice “looking” user interface on top of the crap-stack that is Windows Mobile.

Considering the wealth of talented designers that list their portfolios and availability on the internet, I’m always shocked by how rare it [...]

Apr 17, 2008

Form resource for UI designers

If you’ve ever mocked up a website, you know that a big inconsistency between browsers is the way they render form elements. Drop down menus, input fields, buttons, and the like. JavaScript can take you a long way, but eventually someone is going to come along with JS turned off, and they [...]

Mar 18, 2008

RIM just doesn’t get it

I saw in the news (and by news I mean Techmeme) that RIM just re-upped their littlest model, the petite Pearl, to be equipped with Wifi. Well, that’s great and all, but have they (or you for that matter) ever tried to use the wifi feature? By the time the user navigates to [...]

Feb 21, 2008

Tweets for 2008-02-21

doctor’s office getting a physical. Smells like infection all over the place. Also missing the UI presentation of my work to the board. #
Ugly truth: I’m better at apologizing and rebuilding bridges than I am maintaining the relationship and preventing the need for an apology. #
lunch accomplished. back to php #
the automated tea maker [...]

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