Access bar
This is feature that your future browser should have. You are probably very well aware that web site addresses (aka as URL) are not user friendly. Using URLs is exactly like asking people to learn...
View ArticleTabs - a solution or workaround?
This is the time when everybody are crazy about the tabs. Though they have appeared in programs a long time ago, Firefox really brought them to fame, and when IE7 included them, they became de facto...
View ArticleRecycle bin mystery
I just found out that (in a corporate environment with Windows Server) you don't have recycle bin when you delete something from the desktop. That's because you have separate physical recycle bins for...
View ArticleGadget OS
I have been using Palm Treo 680 (with Palm OS), which is a total opposition to document-centric approach, and to be fair, I was positively impressed. Not to say that document-centric approach is not...
View ArticleSegmentation is the software future
Current software has business origin. When personal computers started (and that is around 25 years ago), they were also technology driven, just like almost every innovation. That means they were more...
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Sidebar navigation
Though there is no clear statistics on this (as different sources may vary), I think that most people will have 1280+ horizontal resolution within 3 years. And large subset of this will be wide...
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Natural Languange Navigation, finally
I have touched this topic at Access bar. After some rethinking, this is how it looks at this point:This means that user should not type in URLs any more, and that natural language is used for...
View ArticleNatural Languange Navigation, a bit more
After showing idea in previous post, there are several more things I would like to explain user scenarios. This interface is made for two things: when user wants to see site he visited, and when user...
View ArticleHow to make software companies compete?
I don't think that it is too hard to conclude that software ecosystem is flawed. Just look at the history. I am not aware of any industry that led to such high market shares and monopolies in almost...
View ArticlePart producers are dead, long live integrators!
Not so long ago, it was enough just have fastest part. Just add some more Ghz to processors, and Windows would act faster, and it was a clear win on the market. The same goes to RAM, hard disk, or...
View ArticleFocus on averarage consumer vs Focus on marginal consumer
I guess there are two philosophies in making software - focus on marginal consumer and focus on average consumer.Most software is made with focus on marginal consumer. That means that feature set is...
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Access bar could be so powerful
Some time ago, I posted about Access bar and Natural language navigation. Part of it was implemented in Firefox 3. But after using Firefox 3, I find that applied concepts have many shortcomings:I see...
View ArticleMy file manager
Ufff, this was about commenting on bad sides of current software design... Later I tried to create some mockups as a proposal of what should be done to improve the things.But finally, I decided to do...
View ArticleCloudy weather
Computer cloud applications are definetly in fashion, however many people opposed that web applications should take over client side application. I think that there is a reason for that that many...
View ArticleRockMelt search
You've probably heard of RockMelt, a browser funded by Marc Andeerssen, a Netscape founder. Well, before start, view video with its features:Well, considering social features, it seems like a bit...
View ArticleHow Nokia sells phones?
Well, even with all bad reviews, Nokia is still company that sells most phones.Obviously, the answer is that there are many different consumers. And not only staff that reviews phones buy them - many...
View ArticleUsers don't need to be system integrators
As Jobs said, today.It is something simple, and something that everybody should know, but at the end it is rarely implemented well. I remember when I was school age, I enjoyed tweaking every single...
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What is the problem with Microsoft Office Ribbon?
I had some issue with Microsoft's Ribbon interface (first introduced in Microsoft Office 2007). Actually, I think many people had more or less trouble using it. So I was thinking how to sum it up, what...
View ArticleGoogle Syndrome - or Lack of Money Incentive Kills Innovation
I think one day, it will be called like that.Let's face it, there are not many thing that in this world that were less inventive than Google search, and I would say that in IT there are no such things...
View ArticleDesign principles
There is just one design principle - think what will fit your end user the best.Everything else are just lies. Guidelines at the best case. I will take just one case that I am most familiar with, but...
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