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  • The Sketchbook of Susan Kare, the Artist Who Gave Computing a Human Face

    Kare’s work gave the Mac a visual lexicon that was universally inviting and intuitive. Instead of thinking of each image as a tiny illustration of a real object, she aimed to design…

    November 22, 2011

  • Mobile Design Patterns

    Good collection of mobile patterns: http://mobile-patterns.com/

    July 23, 2011

  • The iPad Arrives

    As I’m sure you know, tech and geek news has been buzzing for weeks about the arrival of the iPad and today was the day for pre-orders to arrive by UPS and…

    April 3, 2010

  • 10/GUI Concept

    [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/6712657[/vimeo] 10/GUI is an interesting take on a possible multi-touch system by R. Clayton Miller.  The concept re-imagines the desktop UI by proposing a multi-touch system that doesn’t rely on the screen,…

    October 13, 2009

  • Google Wave First Look

    Gina Trapani at Lifehacker has a good write up on the current state of Google Wave.

    September 30, 2009

  • The Browsable Grid

    Several sites, including my own PicoCool, are taking advantage of the grid view as a fast way for users to browse content. Designers have been relying on the grid for generations as…

    September 16, 2009

  • Helveticize Your Web

    It’s been fun to see new scripts and themes developed to “Helveticize” the web, starting with Google Reader, then Google Calendar, Gmail, and now Twitter.  If you’re a Helvetica lover, you’re in…

    September 14, 2009

  • Google Updates Search Box

    Google‘s home page is well-known for its minimalist approach, and the search box itself has had minor adjustments over the past decade. Yesterday, they increased the size of the search box and…

    September 11, 2009

  • iTunes 9.0 App Management

    Finally! The new iTunes 9.0 has an app manager. It’s fairly easy to use but as Steve Rhodes pointed out on my Flickr page, “it is a pain if you want to…

    September 10, 2009

  • Snow Leopard: Smaller, Faster, Better

    The Apple and tech blogs have been buzzing with this week’s early arrival of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, available this Friday, August 28, 2009. We’ve already pre-ordered our family pack…

    August 26, 2009

  • Our Sixth Sense: Wearable Fluid Interfaces

    This week at the TED conference, Pattie Maes from MIT Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group showcased the latest work of her students, “a wearable computing system that turns any surface into an…

    February 7, 2009

  • iPhone 2.0.1

    The new update came out earlier today. I tweeted it, but I’ve been busy with work all day and night. I’m just getting to updating my phone now. If you’ve updated, have…

    August 5, 2008

  • New Interface Paradigms

    It still strikes me as fascinating that the iPhone and the OLPC (or XO) laptop were both released in the last year, and yet they’re such radically different “computing” and communication devices…

    February 26, 2008

  • Fluid UI: Multi-touch screen

    [youtube]PqXPD7EHDto[/youtube] As we amass more and more data, it seems only natural that we’ll need new methods to navigate this space. Jeff Han’s multi-touch screen is impressive. I don’t know if it’s…

    February 3, 2007

  • Design 2.0: Minimalism, Transparency, and You

    Today happens to be the four month anniversary of eHub Interviews, a series of email questions and answers with the creators and companies behind many of the new web 2.0 services and…

    February 6, 2006

  • Why Good Content Must Suck

    This would have been an interesting two hours… Why Good Content Must Suck: Designing for the Scent of Information Jared Spool from User Interface Engineering If you have thousands of pages of…

    February 3, 2003