Jeff Atwood cites various instances of user interface friction. Any aspect of the UI design that makes its usage inconvenient and complex causes friction. Most of the times I have seen that it arises not because of lack of thinking, it is wrong automation. [Continue]
Don Norman writes about the next UI breakthroughs. No, it is not the 3D or virtual world, it is the quite opposite - the command line interface! This highlights a very important point for me. [Continue]
I had read Joe Hewitt on Boxely (from AOL) when it was in the works, but found through Matt that it has gone live. I think these markup based UI development kits are better at portability as their application building technology is available on all platforms. They become portable once their rendering engine is ported on multiple operating systems. [Continue]