MetaFilter posts tagged with interface and design

on your third broken window

plexi — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:30:43 -0800

Aurora is a concept video exploring one possible future user experience for the Web.

Compose. (No ideas but in things) Invent!

tepidmonkey — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:23:52 -0800

No Ideas But In Things is a photoblog of dials, buttons, knobs, levers, handles, switches, and other pieces of user interface design.

Not All Black & White

Gyan — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:24:50 -0800

Using Color In Information Display Graphics - a resource from NASA, "intended to help designers who are not color experts find usable color designs" [via] ~~Sounds~~Looks like a good jumping point to point out great and not-so-great examples of the colored web.

Problem Code 1-1: Piranha plant clogging warp pipe

designbot — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:49:57 -0800

User interface design so epically bad you need a strategy guide to defeat it. Presenting The Legend of FacilityFocus.

Rethinking Software Look&Feel

Gyan — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 23:14:35 -0800

Magic Ink - Information Software and the Graphical Interface

iTunes, Brushed Metal. Lunch in this town again.

Tlogmer — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 21:45:37 -0800

The iTunes 5 Announcement From the Perspective of an Anthropomorphized Brushed Metal User Interface Theme.

"Form follows data"

fatllama — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 19:55:37 -0800

Information Aesthetics is a weblog of experiments in visualization: a power cord that glows as one draws power, a crocheted Lorenz manifold, a live display of a computer thinking about chess, a color-changing flower that detects nearby wifi. To be sure, there are lots of old favorites here but probably some new ones as well.

DONTCLICK.IT - Interface Experiment

signal — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 16:15:53 -0800

dontclick.it : what would you do if somebody stole your mouse button? Yes, it’s flash, and it’s annoying, but that’s the point.

jcterminal — Mon, 25 Jun 2001 11:33:53 -0800

Damn, your media player is ugly. You should fix it. This site has one of the best collections of skins for various programs I have ever seen under one URL. They almost make WinMedia worth it.

Brilliantcrank — Fri, 06 Oct 2000 22:27:03 -0800

Cliques in chat! This is one of the most unique chat apps I have ever come across. What do they serve in the food over at MIT anyway?

baylink — Mon, 07 Aug 2000 12:26:53 -0800

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.

grant — Sun, 14 Nov 1999 09:25:19 -0800

What will future interfaces look like? Steven Johnson, the author of Interface Culture, asked this question of a few presumably knowing souls. There are some interesting points regarding the interaction, rather than the interface in this oh-too-short article.