It's not a bug, it's a feature: Carolin Horn has designed
Anymails, which represents your email messages and folders as micro-organisms. The morphology of the individual organisms and their behaviour within colonies imparts information about the state of your email. You can view QT movies of the application in action (
1,
2), download her
thesis, and download
the Anymails code itself. See some of her other work
here (predominantly in German).
via Madame Martin, the "French Metafilter".
posted by Rumple
on Aug 31, 2007 -
22 comments
GUI Olympics! several corporate sponsors (ATI, nVidia, and others) are
offering up $15,000 in prize money for the best GUI skin any designer can come up with for a few applications. while i think it's great to push for newer and better user interfaces, who do
so many of the designs seem to be pushing complexity over useability? wouldn't a better use of a GUI design prize be to encourage people to improve on a design rather than make it unintelligible? maybe the people pushing the designs need to take
this quiz.
posted by caution live frogs
on Apr 23, 2004 -
18 comments
Ok, here comes the firestorm.
Joel on Software has some very good things to say -- though, like most user-interface-design mavens, I think about 50% of the time that he hasn't comprehended what the problem really is... but in
this piece, he's wrong.
posted by baylink
on Aug 7, 2000 -
17 comments
Wow, check
Amazon's new holiday look. They've added even more new product lines (home improvement, software, and video games). How many folder tabs can they stuff into that navigation bar?
posted by mathowie
on Nov 11, 1999 -
1 comment
button that did it, and the ensuing variations that appeared? In any case, we now have
pixely buttons for just about everything,
scripts to make even more,
and GUI frontends to those scripts for fun and ease. And if you want to be kind to their servers; here's the source if you have Image::GD.
