Great article about how detailed a rendering of an object can drastically change our perception of it’s meaning.
Great advice from Ryan Singer over at 37 Signals. Whenever I’m building out site structures I’m constantly thinking about user tasks or “paths” as well.
Nice article about Tufte’s “computer administrative debris”. You can easily take this concept of removing debris too far, but it’s important to keep these ideas in your mind while you’re designing interfaces.
It’s no iPhone user interface but this new gallery set looks a lot better then almost all the the other mobile phone user interfaces out there. I’m glad to see the competition.
Great thoughts about the illogical parts, the feeling of UI design. I particularly loved the quote “Change and fresh energy bring hope.”
I love it. Here’s to wishing something like this makes it into the final release.
Google’s new tool to help websites improve goal completion rates by running A/B type tests.
A flickr photoset.
Open source flash date selection slider
The SURL team specializes in software/website user interface design research, human-computer interaction research, and usability testing and research.
Hilarious
User interface design patterns. The companion site to the O’reilly-book-in-progress by Jenifer Tidwell.