Posts filed under “UI Design”
Mulberry: Tribute to the Greatest E-mail Program of All Time
For years I have used and loved Mulberry, perhaps the best e-mail client in existence. So I was greatly saddened to hear that Cyrusoft, the company behind Mulberry, declared bankruptcy a year ago. [more (full article)] I was just as much shocked as dismayed. Mulberry was hawked by so many colleges that I assumed its [...]
Where Do Choices Come From?
[14:38] Me: http://headrush.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/04/06/featuritis.jpg [14:38] Gas: lmao [14:38] Gas: funny thing about the downslope [14:39] Gas: the problem is that[sic] the features aren’t discoverable [14:39] Gas: in my mind though, that’s a solvable problem [14:39] Gas: the real problem [14:39] Gas: is that the more features you have, the more spread your engineering effort is [14:39] [...]
Security in UI
One of the most common ways to secure a computer is by using a username/password combination. (In fact, we don’t have to look far to find an example). However, this system is clunky, primarily because it requires you to remember or write down the user name and password for every site (or alternatively use the [...]
Today’s One Paragraph Blog: Frankdensign (the 80-20 rule)
You probably have friends who use the internet. How much would you guess most of them use the buttons on the IE (or Firefox) toolbar? Observation suggests a rule like this: For 80% of the users, only 20% of the buttons gets used (I, for one, never click anything under “Page”). There’s a great book [...]