IMO, Amazon sees the future pretty nicely.
Posts tagged “User Experience”
iPad Magazine Art Direction on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
This is the sort of the review that gets your brain going and you get this feeling that we’re at the beginning of a whole new journey.
- Design best practices
- UX best practices
- Blue sky design practices
- Interactive experiences
- Horizontal vs. Vertical
The possibilities are endless.
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courtenaybird:
ladydata:
Flashy data visualization, sortable with a click? Yes, please.
lookbothways:
“I can’t get over how nicely done this visualization of income in New York City is.” [Via Felix Salmon]](http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ku17rguGi91qz6ljpo1_500.png)
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Flashy data visualization, sortable with a click? Yes, please.
“I can’t get over how nicely done this visualization of income in New York City is.” [Via Felix Salmon]
A rather detailed and elegant explanation for creating a simple and superior experience for installing with Mac OS X.
The Magic Behind Amazon’s 2.7 Billion Dollar Question
Wei Zhou, a ux designer, has created a LifeStream is a conceptual browser for Mozilla and has some fantastic ideas about browsing. I love the incorportation of weather into the details of what we browse and what we see. I believe it asks a question about ourselves, are we what we browse?
What’s Apple’s problem with buttons?
Marco nails it. I love the unbuttoned Apple track pad on the Macbook, I hate the Mighty Mouse, I love the translucent Menu Bar, I hate the refresh button in Safari 4. Certainly Apple is exploring something with their thinking, which is refreshing, I’m not positive it works entirely for me.
With both the new buttonless trackpads and the new iPod Shuffle, it seems that Apple’s going on an all-out war to eliminate as many buttons as possible from their products.
There’s a lot of value in simplifying controls, to a point. But nobody was complaining that either the laptop trackpads or the Shuffles had too many buttons before. In both cases, the devices are now worse off than they were before, but they look a bit cooler.
It’s easy to see signs of a perpetual internal battle at Apple between usability and appearance. Usually, they find a good balance and achieve high quality on both fronts. But sometimes the appearance-driving forces choke usability enough to leak toxic usability flaws into a shipping product. And I think, like 10.5.0’s translucent menu bar and slanty Dock, and Safari 4 Beta’s tab bar, and heavy shiny glass screens on lightweight laptops, and the Mighty Mouse, that this new Shuffle was a victim of the Apple style police defeating any semblance of common-sense usability.
