Ideas for specific designs. See also: Quick Ideas for quick & dirty ideas.
A couple of tweaks to the BART schedule planner would make it much more useful.
It should be easier to store pages to read later.
Can we tweak a gratuitous feature to make it a little bit more functional?
Sacrificing simplicity for the appearance of simplicity.
Reducing the needless UI overhead in Front Row.
Tilt the mouse to pan and scroll
UI friction needlessly wastes the user’s energy on delays and busywork.
If you can’t beat down flame wars, how about formalizing them?
Applying design lessons between the analog and digital worlds
Add speech and Wikipedia is it.
Why are we still laboriously entering phone numbers into our cellphones’ chintzy UIs?
GUI standards, apps and web pages have not kept up with ballooning displays
Let’s let email clients deal with the hassle of exchanging public keys.
Here is a tweak to the micro-interaction of Alt-Tabbing
Ever lose your place when zooming into a browser page? It’s not just you!
Selecting objects in Photoshop can be a pain. Here’s a remedy.
Murphy would say that the right way to insert a magnetic card is the fourth one you try.
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