Tag Archives: user experience design

Microsoft Courier Interface: Awesome

It hurts somehow to admit, but I love the Courier interface.
It feels important to me to somehow attempt to mimic a journal for something that will be used as one. Certainly, this could be duplicated on an iPad using an app, but I think the idea of two screens and a functioning spine is a major differentiator.
We’ll […]

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WriteMinds: Goals and Wireframes

Over the past while, I’ve been working with some friends on an exciting problem:
How can we make writing on a computer easier and… awesome-er?
A couple years ago, some friends of a friend came to me and my friends (Eric and Kevin, who do fun projects with me from time to time) and asked us if we could […]

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Ask Focus on Energy

I wanted to take a moment this morning to go back through the last project I worked on at my last place, which happened to go live on my last day in Chicago. Not only did it go up on time (Jim Vogel is the world’s best project guy), but it’s probably the piece of […]

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Design Features I Like: Large Search Boxes

I’ve noticed some web design features that I’m digging. Primary among these is the emergence of enormous search and data entry fields on some major sites. Sure, big fonts are a sure-fire Web 2.0 design tactic, but extending larger fonts and larger spaces to data entry fields and buttons just makes sense, and people are […]

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