Archive for October 2007

UI Design Mistakes

A common mistake of user interface design is to come up with a clever solution to a common user problem, when you should work out a way to remove that problem in the first place.
My example here is the password entry dialog, in particular the GNOME Screensaver one.
The common user problem is that their password [...]

More Stalling

My instructor was away last week, so it’s been two weeks since my last lesson. Sod’s law would suggest that the weather would be terrible, but someone must like me because instead it was one of the nicest days in quite a while!
The only real thing of concern was a bit of an inversion, [...]