Don’t Make me Think I picked up Steve Krug’s book on common-sense web usability a few years ago. It’s quite enjoyable, but I feel like it’s directed at absolute neophytes to both web design and User Experience.
Designing Interfaces Jennifer Tidwell, a UI designer at a major mathematical/scientific software company, has written what is, in my opinion, the book on UI Design Patterns. This book is a fantastic resource for quickly and easily replicating s...
Design of Everyday Things Donald Norman’s seminal book on great design in everday life introduced the notion of User Experience to…me, at least. This has been one of my favorite books in this field for as long as I’ve been interested in it. Alt...
Even though Windows may be the platform that everyone loves to hate, the simple truth of the matter is that it still has market share somewhere north of 90%. Additionally, when it's all said and done, Windows is actually a fantastic platform to de...
I’m walking down the street to Victrola Coffee yesterday from my apartment. It’s 5pm on a Saturday, and all of the crazies are out…including my new personal favorite: a gay man wearing a towel on his head and a dress. His story goes something like...
I just upgraded my blog from Movable Type 3.2 to 3.3, and I appear to be running into a few issues. Hopefully, this post will find the isues resolved. Otherwise, I may just give it up and migrate to Wordpress (like I should’ve done a while ago :-P...
Update: I have split this entry into a full category, which you can find at http://www.brethorsting.com/uidesign/books/. Future updates will end up in this category. I’ve spent a good deal of time over the years reading books on UI Design, User E...
Ajax = Chocolate = Happiness, and so we knew, when we started planning FogBugz 5.0, that Ajax features would be an important part of this release. FogBugz 4½ and Subjective Well-Being - Joel on Software Joel Spolsky, one of my favorite autho...
Not only do state changing links cause problems for robots, users who are accustomed to having links drive navigation can become confused when links are used to drive application state changes. Alex Bosworth's Weblog: Ajax Mistakes Alex Bosw...
Anyone reading this is probably aware of my, um, bias, towards Windows applications. With that in mind, Tim Sneath, a technical evangelist for the WPF stack in .NET FX 3.0 talks about how to add Aero Glass to the client region of a Windows Forms a...