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Piclens: Image viewing plugin for Firefox with a cinematic interface

2 comments Interface + Photography + Usability

Via Criterion I discover Piclens, a new plugin for Firefox (Mac & Win) and Safari that allows you to browse images on the web full screen with an advanced cinematic interface. It just blew me away when I fired it up while in my Flickr account. Heres one of my Flickr ...

Twitter: error with style

No comments Design + Usability

Here's the error Twitter spits out right now. Cool design as long as you don't see it too often.

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Evolve Your User Interface To Educate Your Users

Comments Off Blogroll + Usability

by Dave Shepard The Web has changed. This isn’t your neighbor’s nerdy kid’s internet anymore. Now the Web is home to your mom, your grandma and your technophobe sister. With computers as common a household appliance as televisions now, who might be using your web-application has expanded beyond ...

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The Future Of Apple Is In 1960s Braun: 1960s Braun Products Hold the Secrets to Apple’s Future

No comments Apple + Design + Interface + Usability + del.icio.us

Interesting article comparing Braun's design from the 60s with Apple's

Wii remote: Redefining Human Computer Interaction

No comments Games + Interface + Usability + Why didn't I think of that?

If you thought that the spring horse + Wii Remote + Need For Speed was the coolest thing you ever saw on videogames wait until you see this. Via hackaday.com I land on Johnny Chung Lee's website and a brave (and cheap) new world opens before me. In his page he has ...

Extending the Wii: Need For Speed + Spring Horse

One comment Games + Interface + Usability + Why didn't I think of that?

Reading X de Xavier's post about using the Wii remote to enable disabled people to interact with computers, I remembered a video of a boy using a spring horse and a Wii remote to play Need For Speed. Yet another case of popular use of tecnology that it's creators never foresaw.

Flash is evil revisited

No comments Interface + Usability + Why didn't I think of that?

In my previous post I talked briefly about fair use of flash in websites and this led me to review an old article entlitled Flash is Evil written in 1999. I remember reading it when it came out and I couldn't agree more with the author. The article reviewed in ...

Three things you (probably) don’t know about the iPhone

No comments Apple + Interface + Typography + Usability

By now, everything has been written, reviewed, praised and criticized about Apple's iPhone. But there's three features that don't hit the highlights too often. Helvetica everywhere!!! Yes, Helvetica is the font for the iPhone. No Verdana nor pixel fonts but plain old Helvetica in decent readable sizes of up to 20px ...

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Humanized > Weblog: Reading, Humanized

No comments Design + Interface + Usability + del.icio.us

But I just wanted to know what was new on my blogs, and those were easy to read. It just involved scrolling down a page and looking at entries; I didn’t have to navigate through heirarchical trees or switch between panes or any of the other things that

ADG-FAD do they know that the web is not made out of paper?

3 comments Barcelona + Design + Interface + Usability

This is the website of ADG-FAD, Art Directors and Graphic Designers Association from Spain. Aren't designers supposed to know how to design a website? Check it for yourself www.adg-fad.org Some "killer" features of this website: No DOCTYPE at the beginning of the documentPage is laid out using Tables!!Some parts of the are ...

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