Photoshop Custom Comping Elements (2)
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Bad Assembly provides a layered Photoshop file with common user interface elements for design comping. It's like the PSD analog to a wireframing UI stencil.
OmniGraffle UX Template (2)
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Made for web designers An OmniGraffle Pro (version 5) template for User Experience Designers with the formats you'll need most for interface and interaction design. The doc is sized so you can work at 100%, and print at 8.5" x 11" or 11" x 17". The masters you need In this template you'll find shared layers (masters) for a title page, wireframe, wireframe/storyboard hybrid, simple storyboard, and storyboard with notes. Column guides and a regular ...
Low-Cost Multi-point Interactive Whiteboards Using the Wiimote (4)
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You might remember the incredible Wiimote hacks by by Johnny Chung Lee, who gave us head tracking demo for desktop VR displays. Lee, a PhD student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University is back with some more useful Wiimote hacks, this time to turn any surface into an interactive whiteboard. He shows how to turn a wall into a whiteboard with a DIY LED pen interface, and also how to create a ...
Year's 10 Best Application UIs (1)
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Jakob Nielsen reveals the winners of a competition to identify the 10 best-designed application user interfaces for 2008. Campaign Monitor by Eyeblaster (Israel): Integrated management of multiple advertising campaigns for media buyers. CMSBox by CMSBox (Switzerland): Content management system FotoFlexer by Arbor Labs (USA): Photo editor PRISMAprepare by Océ (The Netherlands): Print shop software. Seating Management by Magellan Network and DesignBox (USA): Hostess-stand reservation book for restaurants. SQL diagnostic manager by Idera (USA): Database performance ...
Bill Buxton Lecture on Sketching and Experience Design at Stanford (1)
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Bill Buxton gives a lecture at the Stanford University Human-Computer Interaction Seminar (CS 547, June 1, 2007) giving an excellent deep dive into some of the topics in his book, Sketching User Experiences. Designing for experience comes with a whole new level of complexity. This is especially true in this emerging world of information appliances, reactive environments, and ubiquitous computing, where, along with those of their users, we have to factor in the convoluted behaviors ...
Usability test software tool: Excel data logger | Konigi (2)
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User Focus' Todd Zazelenchuk provides an excellent Microsoft Excel tool with macros that turn the document into an application for collecting usability test data. "This spreadsheet allows you to measure task completion rates, analyse questionnaire data, and summarise participant comments. It even includes a timer so you can measure time-on-task. The spreadsheet is highly customisable." Download the Excel document and documentation for free.
IETester: Testing Multiple IE Versions (3)
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IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8 beta 1, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process. Thanks to Chad for the tip.
Nike Courage (1)
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Pattern Tap Launches (2)
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I'm psyched to see that Squared Eye has launched a veritable smorgasbord of interface and visual design inspiration with the user-generated screenshot gallery on Pattern Tap. Get your Tap on!
Where to Get a Clover Coffee (1)
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The Clover coffee maker company has a Google Map to find locations where Clover-made coffee can be found. In New York, you can find them at Cafe Grumpy at 224 West 20th St. The $11,000 Clover coffee maker brews one cup of coffee at a time using a method similar to a French Press, but with the ability to customize water volume and temperature per cup. The machine is programmable and has a network connection, ...
Presdo Calendaring (1)
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Presdo is a calendaring service that uses a simple form input as the command line for entering natural language commands for events. To use, enter event statements as with Google Calendar. It is always assumed that you are the subject—the WHO. You just have to fill in the rest of the WHAT, WITH WHOM, and WHERE parts of the statement, e.g. "Have lunch with Judy on Thursday at 1pm." Once you've submitted the basic event ...
GridMaker Script for PhotoShop (1)
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Andrew Ingram's GridMaker is a brilliant script for Photoshop that can be used to automatically generate guides in your PSD. The script allows you to enter the series of columns that should be laid out both horizontally and vertically. Then you set the maximum dimensions for the canvas. To generate a Blueprint grid, for instance, you'd enter "30,10" to create a PSD with a series of repeating columns of alternating 30 pixel units and 10 ...
Balsamiq Mockups: Prototyping Software (3)
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Balsamiq Mockups is an incredible application for creating user interface mockups. The application allows you layout interface sketches using the 50 interface controls included. Controls are added to the canvas or notebook by dragging and dropping or by using an insert input with auto-completion suggestions. As with Visio, many controls may be easily customized by editing values in the properties panel, and may be modified to show state, e.g. selected, disabled, etc. This looks like ...
MOO Business Cards (1)
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Yahoo! BrowserPlus (1)
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Yahoo! BrowserPlus is software that extends the capabilities of web browsers to make rich web experiences possible. Websites can use the software to support behaviors like drag and drop from the desktop, easier file uploads, acquisition of feeds and information, and native desktop notifications. The site is showing very cool demos right now including dragging and dropping photos from the desktop to a web browser, live image manipulation, and live refreshing IRC chatrooms in the ...
