Tag Archives: user interfaces

The birth of the Microsoft Office “Ribbon”

New ideas for user interface components don’t come by very often.  For example, the pointer, icons, and toolbars have been around since the late 1970′s courtesy of the work done at Xerox PARC.  It’s safe to say that the computing environment in the late 70′s was quite a bit different than it is today, so …

August 4, 2009 – 14:47 | By dariusz | Posted in User Experience | Tagged , , , , , | View Comments

Bridging the digital divide between rich and poor using cellphones.

Today is the 20th birthday of the World Wide Web, and in celebration there was this telecast on French TV from CERN about the future of the web. Stéphane Boyera’s five minute talk stood out as being particularly interesting to me. There is a digital divide in the world, as there are 5 billion people …

March 13, 2009 – 12:46 | By dariusz | Posted in User Experience | Tagged , , | View Comments

Settling on a Research Topic

To be perfectly honest, I was admittied into my Masters program with zero funding. In retrospect, starting a two year+ project with no guaranteed income wasn’t the greatest idea, for a variety of reasons. First, every semester I hope/pray to get a Graduate Teaching Assistant job, which luckily gets easier and easier as I accumulate …

February 29, 2008 – 15:42 | By dariusz | Posted in Masters Research | Tagged , , | View Comments

User Interface Design Patterns

This is information about design patterns that can be used in the design of user interfaces. The patterns I’m particularly concerned with deal with the look, feel, and behaviour of modern interface elements, such as those found in browsing “the Web.” Patterns are often employed in object oriented software development and engineering, much more so …

February 21, 2007 – 13:06 | By dariusz | Posted in User Experience | Tagged , , | View Comments