Archive for UI design
Dieter Rams at the Design Museum
Designery types have been flocking in larger numbers than usual to the Design Museum in London, which, until the 9th of March, has been turned into a shrine to Dieter Rams, the famed Braun designer. We joined them a week ago on a wet, windy January afternoon. The exhibition showcases his minimalist turntables, radios, alarm [...]
Origins of Graphical User Interfaces
Do we really know the history of GUIs? Or do we just assume that the world began in the 70′s and 80′s with Xerox, Apple and Microsoft? In the 1960′s, a PhD student named Ivan Sutherland created an early CAD-like, vector drawing software called Sketchpad. Recently John Nack posted a fantastic video of Sketchpad at [...]
41 shades of blue
Yesterday, as part of an OU course I’m doing, I conducted a few quick usability sessions on a UI prototype for a bug tracking application. I held four sessions with four developer colleagues, each one more enlightening than the last. It was fun. The prototype was build in Axure RP and the sessions were recorded [...]