Hi guys, just found this interesting article: http://ramblings.aaronballman.com/?p=608 It's contains some neat rules of thumb that help in finding out whether...
... It might be interesting but I found it nearly impossible to read on a PB 12". For someone who's writing "rules" for UI design, his document design is...
I'm working on a new UI idea that I'm calling modeless alerts, and I'd love to get some feedback on it. I see a lot of applications putting up modal alerts for...
... My initial thought was that Windows has something like that. It takes the form of "balloons" that popup over the system tray in the task bar. My second...
Both Growl and the Windows taskbar balloons are for notifications from the system or from non-frontmost applications. Modeless alerts belong to the frontmost...
... Not necessarily. The most popular client of Growl is Adium, and there it's just for notifications of new stuff that happened. ... *nods* So, what do you...
... Cases where the application wants to either notify the user of something, or ask a question, that isn't urgent and doesn't merit an application-modal or...
On 19 Mar 06, David Catmull wrote: ... are there user expectations of what happens when she enters invalid input into a textfield? will your proposed modeless...
... I could see this being useful (if done correctly). Better than just the beep. As you said earlier... similar to a tooltip. Color should be a secondary...
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... An icon, I think. I experimented with a white-on-black appearance like the "dashboard" style in the new iApps, but I think that looks out of place (and...
... I think the positioning would easily be the most difficult part to get right. One thing I'd suggest is to try to position it in a way that doesn't obscure...
... I had thought of that too, but the risk is that it can degenerate into something like excel -- I often have sheets with the green triangle in every other...
... That's great for cases where the alert message can be conveyed with just the icon. The thing I don't quite like about the mouse-over popup is that it...
... What about one of those semi-transparent bezel windows which could move out of the way if you want to access other controls in the window. Hmmh, that would...
Hi all, First post on the list; just subscribed a couple of days ago. Brief bio: I'm Matt Gemmell, a Cocoa developer (in my free time) and web applications...
... I think this raises the question of whether multiple highlight colors is a good idea. If you can't display the colors in an easy-to-read manner, maybe it...
Hey David, Thanks for the reply. You make a fair point there. To explain, the original reason for the control was actually to mark days which, say, had entries...
... IMHO, using a single highlight color to highlight days with events in them should be sufficient for most purposes. For example, here's a screenshot of a...
Hey guys; I'm just learning Cocoa, and fooling around. I "came up" with this style of UI. I can't tell what I think about it. I really like it, but I don't...
Well, I'm a little in coming in, but I've seen from the archives that it's good form to introduce oneself. Thanks for setting up this list, Uli. Hi, I'm...
... Generally, I think the UI looks good, especially since this seems to be a specific type of application. I wouldn't necessarily use this kind of UI for...
... It looks good, a little heavy to my eyes, but there's no accounting for taste. However using the exact same blue gradient that we're used to seeing in...
... Hmm. I associate it more with the Spotlight menu and Safari’s RSS view, but it’s true that iTunes and derivatives use it for list selections. An...
Hi, The blue gradient is used to denote a 'starting point'. In Tiger's Finder, it's used on the left hand side to show where in the file system you're starting...
To me, it looks more like a window that's pretending to be a web page. I'm not a big fan of blurring that line. Why do you need to have that extra title, and...
... It’s also used as a category/type heading in the Spotlight Show All window and the Finder’s search results/smart folder window, and as a page header in...
... Here's my 2 cents... I agree with Rainer. Using the exact same gradient on selectable and non selectable items will likely confuse users. (Something...
Nice, I've been meaning to write an application for flash cards myself for a long time. I wouldn't overuse the blue gradients. Use them only on the box you're...
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