09 December 2002

Three interface nuggets: open-source GUIs, polite apps, multimodal UIs Open-source GUIs considered hard to do well: "So why is GUI so hard for open source? I think much (but definitely not all) has to do with the social aspect of open source." 14 Principles of Polite Apps: "Software should respond to your obvious needs, not just your commands. Use these 14 principles to create accommodating software." Multimodal user interfaces: "Of course we've all experienced something like this, when the chatter of a hard disk or the blinking of LEDs on a router has alerted us that something unusual is going on." [via many good people] 11:43:02 AM     comments