Holistic UI is smarter UX – They use notifications as an example of why small pieces loosely joined might not be great UI. It’s really interesting to see how common UI devices such as notifications have evolved across various platforms. Someone should do a gallery of notifications over the years – bonus points if you [...]

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My shared links for February 21st through February 22nd: http://xpra.org/ (Wayland – Beyond X (The H) [LWN.net]) – a 'screen' for X exists. A SCREEN FOR X EXISTS!! A client-side Bayes classifier for Hacker News – Japomatik – Very cool idea. I'd like to see if I can bend it to my purposes – flag [...]

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My shared links for December 22nd: Pearsonified’s Golden Ratio Typography Calculator – calculates line height, font size and content width appropriately for readability. Using the golden ratio might be bogus, but the point of matching font size to line width and height is well taken and the results look OK.

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My shared links for November 27th through December 1st: The Acme User Interface for Programmers – UF Sparse Matrix Collection – SNAP group – collection of datasets including social networks Action Science Explorer (Formerly iOpener Workbench) – iOpener Project – The goal of iOPENER (Information Organization for PENning Expositions on Research) is to generate readily-consumable [...]

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My shared links for August 23rd through September 1st: Ragel State Machine Compiler – DSL for state machines in many languages The Kid Should See This. – Stuff on the nets that kids can get into that isn't dumb Zulkey.com – "They don't necessarily act like they're thinking, "get a load of my rad sock-shoes," [...]

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My shared links for July 12th through July 15th: Understanding Hardware Acceleration on Mobile Browsers | Blog | Sencha – Understanding Hardware Acceleration on Mobile Browsers | Blog | Sencha Scientists Turn to the Web to Raise Research Funds – NYTimes.com – Crowdfunding science. It can't replace existing sources, but it's a great idea for [...]

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My shared links for July 1st through July 2nd: Crash Course: Design for Startups — PaulStamatiou.com – Some design tips and a big reading list. High Society (1901-1959) – Everything is a remix, including riffs in Jazz over forty years. Great YouTube examples. My favorite is the Benny Goodman. Distributed Bug Tracking Avoids Out-of-Sync Bugs [...]

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I had an idea the other day that I shared on Twitter: @mikemccracken: It would be cool if there was a way for well-used & loved GUI software to gracefully show its age, like a good leather wallet… I still like this idea, and I loved the example that Bryan Knight replied with – the [...]

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I’ve recently seen the concept of delight in software brought up in a couple different places, and I just wanted to cheer it on. Jesper at waffle is starting an open-source web browser project to revive the spirit of OmniWeb, called rouse. He coins the phrase “delight innovation”. I love that phrase. He’s talking about [...]

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I love it when I can guess how to do something new in a program. Skim just did this for me – I needed to figure out how big the rectangle of text in a paper I’m working on is, in inches. I looked for rulers, and then decided I’d just see if I get [...]

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