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Times presents news feeds in a visual newspaper format that is always up to date with news from the sources you want. VISIT LINK: Times – a unique and innovative RSS newsreader for iPad (tags: aggregator apple app application applications blog apps design feeds feed inspiration interesting interface ipad leopard web ui tools software rss [...]
"imgAreaSelect is a jQuery plugin for selecting a rectangular area of an image. It allows web developers to easily implement image cropping functionality, as well as other user interface features, such as photo notes (like those on Flickr)." VISIT LINK: imgAreaSelect – image selection/cropping jQuery plugin (tags: ajax css design development graphics image images plugins [...]
A shared folder of simple wireframes VISIT LINK: Sstarting point templates for Google Drawings (tags: application collaboration design diagram docs drawing google googleapps googledocs graphics ia omnigraffle tool tools ux ui visio webdev webdesign wireframes blueprint drawings mockup prototype mockups prototyping stencil …)
For those who look at graphical interfaces of apps, and not just their content VISIT LINK: Well-Placed Pixels – A Visual Record Of Beautiful Software (tags: app apple application applications apps art beautiful blogs blog design designer development gallery graphics inspiration interesting interface iphone mac mobile osx pixels reference software ui ux webdesign web examples [...]
How To Create iPhone-Style Navigation using jQuery and CSS Tutorial to make an iPhone style horizontally-sliding navigation using jQuery and CSS. (tags: design webdesign free webdev howto development css tutorial iphone html javascript interface webdevelopment ui navigation resource jquery ajax …)
BumpTop Mac: Reinventing your Mac desktop. A brand new way to look at your Mac desktop, BumpTop is a full 3D experience with smooth, realistic physics, making your Mac’s desktop act more like the real desktop it’s sitting on (tags: software design free mac fun osx apple freeware apps cool application productivity macosx utilities applications [...]
There is no page fold WELCOME TO THE WORLD WIDE WEB, AN INTERACTIVE MEDIUM IN WHICH SCREEN RESOLUTION STATISTICS ARE TRIVIAL, BROWSER VIEWPORTS ARE VARIABLE, AND SCROLLING BEHAVIOUR IS A STANDARD. THERE IS NO PAGE FOLD. LOVE YOUR SCROLLBAR (tags: client web design webdesign webdev fun internet cool funny inspiration development humor browser interesting humour [...]
10 User Interface Design Fundamentals It’s no great mystery that truly great user interfaces are the ones that are engineered to stay out of the way. ‘Staying out of the way’ means not distracting your users. Rather, good UIs let your users complete goals. The result? A reduction in training and support costs, and happier, [...]
Google Reader Absolutely Compact Maximizes the area for displaying articles by removing all the stuff that you probably never use anyway. Be ready to learn your keyboard shortcuts though because this is a really stripped down interface. (tags: greader google googlereader chrome scripts greasemonkey script style css minimal compact reader addon ui tools styles google_reader [...]
Low cost usability testing We know usability testing is a pain. It’s expensive and time-consuming. As a result, it doesn’t happen enough. That’s why we built UserTesting.com—we wanted to bridge the gap between no user testing and expensive user testing. UserTesting.com lets you "look over the shoulder" of people in your target audience while they [...]
Recreating the button – Custom buttons in Gmail These buttons just launched in Gmail yesterday, and they’ve been in Google Reader for two months now. The buttons are designed to look very similar to basic HTML input buttons. But they can handle multiple interactions with one basic design. The buttons we’re using are imageless, and [...]
WordPress 2.7 Coltrane "Last, but certainly not least, this may be the last time you ever have to manually upgrade WordPress again. We heard how tired you were of doing upgrades for yourself and your friends, so now WordPress includes a built-in upgrade that will automatically notify you of new releases, and when you’re ready [...]
A Journey Through Five Years of WordPress Interface With the recently launched WordPress 2.7, bloggers now marvel at how clean, beautiful and usable is the new interface. But do you remember what it used to be a couple of months ago? For those who started using WordPress years ago, can you remember what your admin [...]