Ideas for specific designs. See also: Quick Ideas for quick & dirty ideas.
Multitouch isn’t all that. Except when it is.
Numbers have always been a challenge to type accurately on regular keyboards. Here’s a tactical fix.
Stationery is broken in the Mac OS. Here’s the fix, and a workaround in the mean time.
Apple’s dubious track record of mouse design
Maintain simplicity over time by blending in new functionality rather than bolting it on.
Is the Google UI really the ultimate way to peruse search results?
Message threading is broken in some common mail apps. Here’s a fix.
Maybe you do want to #follow a #channel in Twitter.
Solving the Digital-TV switchover problem with process design.
There are legitimate reasons why people need to act differently in different spheres.
20 years later, it’s still hard to find the right window in a stack strewn across the desktop
How might the iPhone afford direct access to key apps and tasks without defiling its exterior with another dastardly button?
All kinds of potential goodness snuck in when Apple made the touchpad clickable.
How might the laptop form factor evolve?
Even UI designs as old as the Save dialog and the window titlebars have room for improvement.
Users of music players have their eyes busy and their ears free. Why not use the ears to augment the UI?
Life is too short to listen to music you don’t like.
Basic UI deficiencies in common products we’ve suffered for for years or decades.
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