Flow charting the bailout
Great design doesn’t make it less depressing, unfortunately. Continued… see the whole scary story on Mint.com.
Mapping the political landscape
Maps depicting the current standings in Electoral College votes for the presidency are in every newspaper. We are accustomed to viewing the political landscape in state-sized chunks, since that’s how the final votes are tallied. The New York Times, in my opinion a leader in…
Lightbox fatigue
Jacob Nielsen just proclaimed the lightbox the “interaction design technique of the year“: In UI terms, a lightbox draws the user’s attention to a dialog box, error message, or other design element in the middle of the screen by dimming the rest of the screen.…
Where are the women in open-source?
Great presentation about the perceived lack of women in open-source development. (I love that she mentions ravelry.com, my favorite web community, as an example of a site built on open-source software!) Form an orderly queue, ladies (OSCON, 2008) view presentation (tags: oscon2008 foss women in…
Hand-drawn UIs for the web
I came across an interesting article on hand-drawn interfaces here. Sometimes a Sharpie and good, strong paper tell the story better — and faster — than a fully fleshed out wireframe. (I must confess that ballpoint sketches on notebook paper don’t pack nearly the same…
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