To designers who sign off on an interface like this, all non-English-speaking users are pygmies. They think they can shove a surrogate, a fake at us and we’ll be happy with it and settle for it.
That’s where the whole great meaning of “I took a photo” in …
I recently noticed a chart in the Google Analytics software.
Here we see a comparison of two metrics: the blue line shows the number of visits (Visits), and the light-blue one shows the number of unique visitors (Unique Visitors). Take another look at the chart and answer the question: which …
Reader Maxim asked me to write some notes about the usability of the user interface in Eclipse.
Dear Maxim!
I haven’t yet managed to take advantage of all the benefits of the integrated development environment “Eclipse,” version 3.7.1, item M20110909-1335, because for two hours straight now I …
A year ago we discussed the table design of the email client Microsoft Outlook. Today let’s talk about tables in Thunderbird.
When using the Mozilla Thunderbird email client, I often run into this scenario. I open the Sent folder and visually scan the list of sent emails, starting with …
Google’s designers are quietly losing their minds. Today I noticed that in the search results they changed the color of a visited link. Hello, colorblind people!
And they’ve also stopped underlining links. Try to guess what on this page is clickable and what isn’t.
And finally, you …
Last time, the editorial staff of our blg wrote about the design of the map for the Kholodnohirsko-Zavodska metro line. Today, a photograph of the Oleksiivska line map has been obtained from reliable sources.
Of the pictograms, I liked “Ice-cream Cone,” “Trash Can,” “Moon Path,” and “Some Damn Thing.”
The metro has a new design for the metro line map. Now every station has its own icon (a pictogram, that is). I dare say this is a kind of innovation. As far as I know, there’s nothing else like it anywhere in the world.
Proletarska — a hammer and …
I continue studying the user interfaces of Microsoft—the leading corporation in developing office products. Last time we drew your attention to the alignment of numeric data in Outlook. Today we’ll be talking about saving files in PowerPoint.
One typical operation is saving each slide of a presentation as …
The most important difference between Windows 7 and Windows XP is that the operating system’s user interface started turning its back to the forest and its front to the user. One interesting example is shown in the figure below. Windows, besides automatically changing the clocks, also uses the speech …