OpenID13 items tagged “ui”
The making of the NYT’s Netflix graphic. A database dump from Netflix, some clever hackery in ArcView GIS, hpricot to scrape Metacritic and a lot of careful thought about the UI for navigating the data. 
25th January 2010, 1:11 pm
A piece with a lot of screenshots about the close tab behaviour in Google Chrome. If you click “close” with your mouse, Chrome doesn’t resize the remaining tabs until you mouse away from the area. This means you can click “close” multiple times without having to chase the close button. I hadn’t noticed this, partly because Chrome doesn’t do it if you hit Command-W. They even switch the position of the close button in RTL languages such as Arabic. 
11th December 2009, 9:19 am
Chromium OS User Experience. The 2 minute UI concept video is probably the best way to understand the ideas behind Google’s Chrome OS. 19th November 2009, 10:12 pm
pudb. A full-screen, curses console based visual debugger for Python, built using the urwid console UI library. 
1st November 2009, 12:09 pm
Collection: Search Patterns. Peter Morville’s enormous collection of screenshots of search engine interfaces. 30th July 2009, 12:35 pm
Showers and UI design. UI issues aside, why is it so hard to build a shower where the settings for freezing cold and scaldingly hot are more than a couple of millimeters apart? 
14th December 2008, 8:21 am
CSSEdit 2.5 Out Now! (via) Like John Gruber says, this is the best implementation of application tabs I’ve ever seen. 
23rd April 2007, 8:26 pm
Poll results: 50.4% of respondents maximise windows. Interesting graphs that break down browser window maximisation by operating system. 17th April 2007, 4:22 pm
factoryjoe: Design Patterns. Chris Messina’s collection of user interface design pattern screenshots, collated on Flickr. 10th April 2007, 11:22 am
How to beat Google, part 1. Rick Skrenta with 12 steps to taking on Google in the search engine space, including some great insights in to smart UI design. 27th March 2007, 12:02 am
In Which I Think About Java Again, But Only For A Moment. Convincing argument as to why desktop applications written in Java rarely have decent user interfaces. 22nd January 2007, 9:39 pm
Apple’s Next-Generation Themes. Cabel’s spotted an Apple patent with screenshots of their in-house tool for creating resolution independent user interface themes. 8th January 2007, 11 pm
Race conditions in security UI. A vulnerability that is even more effective against advanced users (i.e. fast typists). 2nd July 2004, 4:14 pm
