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  10 Futuristic User Interfaces

  Good user interfaces are crucial for good user experience. It doesn't matter how good a technology is — if we, designers, don't manage to make user interface as intuitive and attractive as... More... 177 Comments

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  Top 10 Usability Highs Of Mac OS

  Although I've been a Windows power user for years, the transition to Mac couldn't have been easier and more pleasant. I don't want to turn this article into some endless rambling about how great Mac is,... More... 257 Comments

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  Take part in Fully Personal Interface Research

  Fully Personal Interface research is a survey where people are questioned about their interface preferences. Results: labels and icons should be placed on the left, horizontal menus are more popular... More... Be the first to comment!

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  Mac OS X Leopard: Designer’s Guide to Icons

  In 2000 Apple released the visual theme Aqua, a stunning leap forward in graphical user interface design. At the same time Apple published the Human Interface Guidelines (HIG), a tool for developers and... More... 48 Comments

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  Adobe Photoshop Video Tutorials - Best Of

  by Dirk Metzmacher The best thing about Photoshop video-tutorials is that they allow you to observe professionals just as if you were standing nearby and looking over their shoulders. You can see... More... 158 Comments

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  10 Principles Of Effective Web Design

  Usability and the utility, not the visual design, determine the success or failure of a web-site. Since the visitor of the page is the only person who clicks the mouse and therefore decides everything,... More... 390 Comments

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  Usability and Interface Design Books

  Usability and interaction design are fields that are becoming important for every website design. They consider the interactions between the user and every system, nowadays most commonly applied to... More... 82 Comments

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  Adobe Flash Tutorials - Best of

  Although usability evangelists often consider Flash to be a usability nightmare, used properly, Flash can provide users with a rich and interactive interface which would be impossible otherwise. Today... More... 158 Comments

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  Introducing YUI - The Rising Giant

  by René Schmidt Web developers may already have heard of Yahoo's new AJAX and DHTML framework. Maybe not - Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) has yet not gained popularity similar to Script.aculo.us,... More... 44 Comments