Archive for March, 2008

Good UI design trends

Monday, March 31st, 2008

I read a good article about UI design trends at readwriteweb.com. To summarize:

No sign-up forms, no logins We Really Care

The article have some good thoughts about web UI trends and I really agree. Just let the user try the service, if he likes it, just sign up. The [...]

Flexible CSS buttons

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

I read an article by Robert Nyman about styling the buttons with some delicious CSS to make them blend in with the rest of the site. I agree with Robert that most of the time you shouldn’t change the default style of buttons. It may make them less findable and visible. But sometimes it is [...]

Google vs Apple vs your company app

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Great fun. Good illustration how it often works. At my work I have a bunch of internal applications that I use daily. They all have different GUI’s, better and worse, most of the time worse. (via)

Starting a new job

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

I’ve been working at Skatteverket (The swedish tax agency) for almost three year now. It is now time for something new, fresh and fun. I’m starting a new job as a interaction designer at Antrop. Antrop is a consulting firm in Stockholm that focus on usability. I had the pleasure to work with two great [...]

Helvetica

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Helvetica comes from the latin words Confoederatio Helvetica and means Switzerland. Helvetica is also a typeface used widely around the globe.

I had the opportunity to to see the movie: Helvetica, a documentry film by Gary Hustwit, which was really good and interesting. If you have a chance to see the film you should. [...]

Problems

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

My host (Proinet) was hacked this month and been having major problems since then. The site goes up and down and now it produces some kind of SQL error. It seems to be working now but this the end of my stay at this host. Now it’s time for bed so no long post.


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