I just read a blog post from Robert Scoble about Zillow, the super-hot real estate start-up based here in Seattle. Robert discusses Zillow underpricing his Bothell, WA house’s value by $30,000, and why it’s best to buy a house in Half Moon Bay dur...
This is an oldie, but a goodie. Jenny Lam, Creative Director for the Windows Ux organization, MSX, did an interview with Robert Scoble for Channel 9 a while back, where she chatted with him about “this whole Experience thing.” You can see the 40 ...
I just stumbled across the Identityworks website, by way of Digg. Although I’ve never seen Identityworks before, it’s rapidly becoming a new favorite. Dating all the way back 1998, the site catalogues brand and logo changes from across the Fortune...
For as long as I’ve been involved in UI design, I have considered the Apple Human Interface Guidelines to be the gold-standard of User Experience guidelines. They are available on Apple’s developer website, and are well-worth reading, regardless o...
Felix Turner, a Flash developer at Brightcove, built a super-nifty swirly, spinny “web 2.0-ish” Flickr picture browser that searches upon tags and returns its results in a nifty little UI. Perhaps not mind-blowing, but it is fun, especially the w...
I found a fun, little page on an Aussie web design site, Max Design that contains a good 50+ CSS-styled horizontal and vertical lists for navigation: http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic
Even though it receives far less attention than it’s more-malleable sibling, the non-client area of a dialog (the window frame, etc.) is highly configurable with Winforms 2.0. There are several guidelines that you should follow when creating new d...
Mauricio Perez, a Microsoft Technical Account Manager (or TAM), has an extensive survey of creating an effective User Experience for Windows Mobile 5.0 devices at WindowsForDevices.com. The article is fairly broad, covering everything from the evo...
Mike Davidson, fellow Seattleite and CEO of Newsvine, has a handy tutorial on making your website mobile device-friendly in just a couple minutes. His approach, in contrast to the potentially unsupported approach of using ‘mobile device web standa...
UI Design for Programmers This book from former Microsoft Program Manager, Joel Spolsky, covers the basics of good UI design in the least-dry manner I’ve ever had the pleasure of reading. This is a fantastic introductory book on creating a good...