Tag Archives: interface

Tonido Thots - Your personal Wordpress

By Madhan | April 7, 2009

In our continuing roundup of Tonido applications, we covered Tonido Jukebox, Tonido Webshare, Tonido Photos and Tonido Workspace.
The newest application that is part of the 0.2 release available now is Tonido Thots.
As a long time Wordpress user, I love how Wordpress works. The ability to post interesting things to your blog and share them with [...]

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Great UI experience means good shopping carts

By Madhan | March 30, 2009

Have you use IKEA’s shopping carts, versus ones in Walmart, ToysR US for instance? The difference is huge.
The bad shopping carts tend to run in one direction, steer doggedly against where you want to go and take a huge amount of patience just trying to move from one aisle to another. This can become more [...]

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Google Reader gets a facelift

By Madhan | December 8, 2008

Ok, it is a slow news day. The online Google RSS reader has a new UI. Interesting news, but nothing to write a whole blog post about.
But I just saw an instance on how true my previous post on loss of control in web apps is.
When I read this story on download squad, the writer [...]

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Office 2007 Ribbon Interface

By Madhan | June 5, 2008

One of the onerous tasks with working on a startup is the sheer amounts of documents you have to churn out. Design documents, functional specifications, action lists, letters, presentations etc. Instead of getting the latest MS Office, I decided I can skimp and just use Open Office. I have been hearing a lot of good [...]

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UI Design Cheat Sheet

By Madhan | February 4, 2008

UI design is black magic. It is as if the best GUIs had a few voodoo priests hanging around, casting wards against the “Sucky UI demon”.
Here is a quick UI design cheat sheet, freely copied from various resources. I suggest you read those resources in full to get the full gist of the ideas.
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