Archive for the 'Interface' Category

Haphazard UI in MSN Messenger

Sometimes I glance at design choices and really wonder, ‘what were they thinking?’ Various widgets in MSN Messenger are a prime example of this; the IM client is a product in a field where nobody cares to use conventional UI chrome, and there’s the identity crisis between being a desktop app and a web application. [...]

The Interface is the Software

Summary: The attention paid to Google Maps isn’t undeserved.