Tag: Design

Screenshots: Programmer-speak, flow, and WTF

(flickr tag: flow)

“The null links below are simply for tab navigation on this page” says the note toward the top of this website. The designer clearly tried to be helpful by explaining two things: 1) text that appears to be a link may not actually go anywhere, and 2) you […]

A click-free interface

This is an interesting concept — an interface where all you do is controlled with the mouse pointer. There’s absolutely no clicking involved.
One of the problems I came across was that I often selected things without meaning to. For instance, I was playing one of their games where you have to move the mouse a […]

Music exploration

(flickr tag: music)
One of the things I love about Rhapsody and my Sandisk Sansa is that they make it easy for me to find new music that I might enjoy but would otherwise never know about.
Rhapsody has always had this feature called “Channels” (used to be called “Radio”), which gives […]

What Pepsi and jetBlue have in common

Somehow, I can’t help but think that Pepsi and jetBlue have the same graphic designer…

(flickr tag: blue)

Brand attributes

(flickr tag: brand)
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about brand attributes. It particularly came up when we were working with a graphic designer to create icons to use in one of our applications. The original set of icons created was good, but it just didn’t feel right to be used […]

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