iOS 5 Concept Notification Center from Apple’s new UI/UX intern, Jan-Michael Cart.
(Source: youtube.com)
December 16th 2011
Dark Patterns: Deception vs. Honesty in UI Design »
In particular, this passage does a fantastic job at articulating the hardest part of my job:
Removing dark patterns from any site involves a leap of faith. A company has to shift from a short-term quantitative measurement mindset to one that values relatively slow, steady growth of “warm fuzzy” qualitative things like brand image, credibility, and trust.
“I typically argue that it’s okay to diverge from conventions so long as the experience is intuitive and polished. If it improves things, even better.”
Geoff Teehan makes poignant comment about native vs. web interfaces in Going down the right Path.
Free UI Kits (via decodering)
Microsoft UI has officially entered the realm of self-parody.
I think I’d find another occupation if I had to work on Windows.
Edit: My views on this do not extend to the magnificent design work going into other parts of Windows.
spin.js »
MIT-licensed, imageless, loading spinner which uses CSS3 where possible and falls back to VML for our buddy, IE6. Great little JavaScript project.
OS Lion UI Kit, free download. (Thanks to Javier for the tip!)
Josh Collie has been doing some fantastic mockups on Forrst for a desktop Google application.
