The Old New Thing

November 29, 2005 - The Old New Thing

The craft of UI design: flow|state

November 29, 2005 Nov 29, 2005 11/29/05
Raymond Chen
You can tell right away that Jan Miksovsky's flow|state is about user interface design. I've had the pleasure of working with Jan when he was at Microsoft. Whereas I focus on the mechanics of making a user interface happen, Jan looks at the bigger problems of design and interface architecture. For example, in this entry he considers the ...

Taxes: Geopolitics

November 29, 2005 Nov 29, 2005 11/29/05
Raymond Chen
One frequently-overlooked software "tax" is geopolitics. We've alread seen that the time zone and regional settings dialogs created international unrest. It appears that Google Maps failed to recognize the extremely sensitive issue of naming the body of water that lies between Korea and Japan, as well as stirring up international tensions ...