Bits and pieces
Friday, June 16, 2006 23:45
During the last months I have slowly been collecting interesting articles, weblogs, and websites related to UI design and mac development. Since there aren't many people that write about these subjects anyway I thought it would be interesting to share them. I'd also like it invite any of you who have related links not in my list to share them by commenting about them.
David Weiss: Very interesting weblog from one of the MacBu members working on mac Office, he offers a great and hard to find look into high end mac development.
Jensen Harris: Yet another very valuable weblog from Microsoft. It goes into great detail about the user interface changes for the new version of Office. It contains many in depth articles about a variety of interface changes, I learned a lot from reading the posts written not only by Jensen but also by other Office team members.
Daniel Wilson: Daniel doesn't post often, but when he does he writes about interface problems on the mac and provides visualized solutions with good argumentation.
John Gruber: Once in while he will spend some of his writing on general mac usage and interface issues, and when he does it it's done with great detail.
Susan Kare: Any interface or icon designer should know who Susan is and what she does/did. And she has the best icon t-shirts around.
Folklore: Is a web site devoted to collective historical storytelling about the development of the original Macintosh. It captures and presents sets of related stories that describe interesting events from multiple perspectives, including some that detail on the development of the original mac interface and icons.
Wil Shipley: Was one of the people behind OmniGroup and now the man behind Delicious Library. His weblog is a must read for any mac developer.
Steven Frank: One of the guys behind Panic. Great articles about mac software in general and once in a while about their own software and the history of it.
Cocoa Radio: When Blake Burris has time he does awesome interviews with mac developers around the world, I learned a lot from just listening to his podcasts. And with his new initiative CocoaDevhouse he is really doing some great things for the mac development community.
The Iconfactory: These guys are the ones behind a lot of the Mac OS X icons and the look and feel of the WinXP icons. I'm in particular a big fan of the icons by Dave Brasgalla. It was an honor to design some of the graphics for the MacThemes insider with Dave.
Jon Hicks: Anybody interested in design and mac software should stop by here at least once in a while. If only developers would turn to people like John to let them do the design, software would have a much better image.
Firewheel Design: Particularly specialized in web "2.0" icon and interface design, I particularly like the post on pixel vs. vector icon design.
Resolution Independent UI: I'm not entirely sure why but I don't think anybody has yet pointed to this Apple page that clearly outlines what the current state of Resolution Independent UI is. And also allows to make reliable guesses on what to expect in the future. Only question I have is what image format Apple will use to store multiple sized UI elements in, I'd guess multi page tiff's for now.
Some other links: Apple Human Interface Guidelines, Windows Vista User Experience Guidelines, Windows XP Visual Guidelines, Java Look and Feel Design Guidelines.
Daniel Jalkut: Former Apple employe who now has his own buisness. Regularly writes articles on interface design and the importance of it.
David Weiss: Very interesting weblog from one of the MacBu members working on mac Office, he offers a great and hard to find look into high end mac development.
Jensen Harris: Yet another very valuable weblog from Microsoft. It goes into great detail about the user interface changes for the new version of Office. It contains many in depth articles about a variety of interface changes, I learned a lot from reading the posts written not only by Jensen but also by other Office team members.
Daniel Wilson: Daniel doesn't post often, but when he does he writes about interface problems on the mac and provides visualized solutions with good argumentation.
John Gruber: Once in while he will spend some of his writing on general mac usage and interface issues, and when he does it it's done with great detail.
Susan Kare: Any interface or icon designer should know who Susan is and what she does/did. And she has the best icon t-shirts around.
Folklore: Is a web site devoted to collective historical storytelling about the development of the original Macintosh. It captures and presents sets of related stories that describe interesting events from multiple perspectives, including some that detail on the development of the original mac interface and icons.
Wil Shipley: Was one of the people behind OmniGroup and now the man behind Delicious Library. His weblog is a must read for any mac developer.
Steven Frank: One of the guys behind Panic. Great articles about mac software in general and once in a while about their own software and the history of it.
Cocoa Radio: When Blake Burris has time he does awesome interviews with mac developers around the world, I learned a lot from just listening to his podcasts. And with his new initiative CocoaDevhouse he is really doing some great things for the mac development community.
The Iconfactory: These guys are the ones behind a lot of the Mac OS X icons and the look and feel of the WinXP icons. I'm in particular a big fan of the icons by Dave Brasgalla. It was an honor to design some of the graphics for the MacThemes insider with Dave.
Jon Hicks: Anybody interested in design and mac software should stop by here at least once in a while. If only developers would turn to people like John to let them do the design, software would have a much better image.
Firewheel Design: Particularly specialized in web "2.0" icon and interface design, I particularly like the post on pixel vs. vector icon design.
Resolution Independent UI: I'm not entirely sure why but I don't think anybody has yet pointed to this Apple page that clearly outlines what the current state of Resolution Independent UI is. And also allows to make reliable guesses on what to expect in the future. Only question I have is what image format Apple will use to store multiple sized UI elements in, I'd guess multi page tiff's for now.
Some other links: Apple Human Interface Guidelines, Windows Vista User Experience Guidelines, Windows XP Visual Guidelines, Java Look and Feel Design Guidelines.
Daniel Jalkut: Former Apple employe who now has his own buisness. Regularly writes articles on interface design and the importance of it.
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- At 12:20 AM, said.
Two names are mis-spelled.
Steven Frank at Panic.inc and Wil at Delicious Monster.
Good blog entry!- At 9:12 AM, said.
Thanks samurai, mistakes fixed.
- At 12:52 PM, said.
...and Jon Hicks ;)
- At 3:05 PM, said.
Don't forget Jeff Raskin- despite the untimely death his last book was 'ok' albeit a bit bitter sounding- 'The Humane Interface'- he was starting to make similar arguments from HI and almost translating them into Ecological Interface Design and Cognitive Systems principles
and even though they're DonNorman dweebs- the guys over at ok-cancel.com occasionally have some nifty Mac idiosyncrasies
cheers!- At 7:19 AM, said.
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