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Design Matters -- but Content is King

In Never design what you can steal, I praised this amusing guerilla redesign of Jakob Neilsen's useit.com-- which is widely derided by the design community for its radically bare-bones layout. Well, the design guerillas are at it again. This time, they've set their design eye

By Jeff Atwood ·
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design patterns

Visual Design Patterns

A recent post by Steve Makofsky reminded me that the excellent UI Patterns and Techniques site is now a book from O'Reilly -- Designing Interfaces. There's technically no reason to buy a book on visual design patterns when you can find the same information online .. * GUI

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ui

Trees, TreeViews, and UI

I somehow doubt this is what Joyce Kilmer was thinking of when he wrote the poem, Trees: I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. It’s unfortunate that the TreeView is one of the standard widgets in a usability designer’s toolkit, because trees

By Jeff Atwood ·
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