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User Interface

iPhone UX Anti-Patterns

July 5, 2009 User Interface

What follows are notes from a session I attended at the last Web 2.0 Expo. While a few months old, the notes here are still very relevant. As a Nokia employee, some may think it strange for me to blog about how to develop for the iPhone but I think not, the priciples I share [...]

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Dopplr City Colors

March 18, 2009 Travel

Did you know that dopplr assigns a unique color to each city? Neither did I. It’s not just random either – there’s an algorithm at play here. From the dopplr blog:
We wanted a deterministic RGB colour value for each city. At first, we tried mapping the latitude and longitude of a city to a point [...]

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No Noovo, No!

January 28, 2009 User Interface

UPDATE: Andrej from Noovo writes in the comments below that they have modified Noovo’s UI flow so that the selection of contacts for invitation to their service is no more clearly defined.  Thankfully, this post is now history and lessons learned.
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I thought about sending this feedback directly to Noovo but it’s important to warn others [...]

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Yahoo on Widget Architecture

December 2, 2008 Design

I was at the local Mobile Monday event last night to learn more about Yahoo’s Blueprint development framework and soak up some of the local mobile scene. One of the presenters, sorry, didn’t catch his name, was the UI Designer and he Bill Bull, Head of Platform UED, made a very insightful comment about web [...]

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You Kids Never Had it so Good!

October 23, 2008 Nokia

Getting up to speed here at Nokia after joining three days ago – lots of institutional knowledge tucked away across the intranet which features a bewildering array of internal blogs, wikis, and video archives. One thing I immediately notice is that the average age of people who work here in the Mountain View office is [...]

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Grim Visualizations : Crime Mashups 2.0

August 18, 2007 Maps

We all remember the Chicago Crime Map which took Chicago police reports and overlayed it on top of Google Maps. For many, this was their first exposure into the world of mashups and to a large extent opened everyone’s eyes to the benefits of opening up your data. That was 2005. Now the UED crowd [...]

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Zillow Heat Maps

April 4, 2007 Maps

I was just checking out Zillow’s new redesign and noticed something I hadn’t seen before. The Zillow Heat Map layer shows you relative price per square foot over a region. Check the box in the upper-right of the map view and zoon out to city level to see it in action.
Was that there before or [...]

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Multi-touch Interface shown off at eTech

March 7, 2006 Events

Totally cool – they had Jeff Han showing off his touch screen interface. I got a pointer to this a couple of weeks ago and was blown away – someone at Yahoo called it “web 5.0″
Here’s a page with a video showing it in action – must be seen to be fully appreciated.
UPDATE: so many [...]

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