Tag Archives: ui

How to add custom external links to your Tonido

Tonido not only allows seamless access to your files and media, it truly is your personal hub.
With the latest Tonido 2.10.x release, there is a new feature to customize the apps that are shown in the navigation tree. You are no longer limited by the apps Tonido provides, but you can add your own custom [...]

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Introducing brand new Tonido UI

We are excited about our most significant Tonido UI upgrade ever coming in the upcoming Tonido release.

We have totally revamped the view once you login into Tonido.
We were working with two major objectives.

Making it easy for new Tonido users to understand and use the system with the minimum of hand holding
Providing all the controls for [...]

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Tonido Thots - Your personal Wordpress

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

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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Tonido in Action Video

A quick video of Tonido as a concept and and in action. Check it out.

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Office 2007 Ribbon Interface

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

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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