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The conclusion is a total let down. "Dust off your drop shadows and gradients, and introduce them to your flat color buttons and icons. Do your absolute best work without feeling r…

Irrespective of his concerns as an individual- from a pure usability perspective: any waiting of any sort that does not signify some valuable piece of information is negative to us…

The UX is broken, but adding the start button would only break it more. I don't have much confidence in their design team, but I think they know there is no returning to the start …

Do you believe Samsung has benefited from Apple's R&D?

This is my understanding too. And I think the Metro look is going to perform particularly poorly when it is isolated to navigational components on a webpage while content follows w…

Kudos to Next Web for celebrating interface innovation. The payment process looks super slick.

Good perspective!

It is ADD for sure, but there is a measured dopamine response to this type of interaction. The easiest way to understand the history of any object is through a timeline, so when ap…

Sage advice. It took me longer than it should have to learn this.

Brilliant!

I meant the big app developers. Its a throwaway comment for sure. I was just trying to encourage the original idea of the post while taking out its legs by pointing out how most of…

The apps look great for sure and it seems like the big dogs are prioritizing Android. Many of these examples are in fact on both platforms, and overall they look better on iOS than…

I love how Hacker News has a bunch of pissed of nerds that are mad that a website advertising music plays said music.

What a brilliant name! We need a tinfoil chrome extension.

Thanks for the detailed response, and like a good UI junkie you are into the emotional aspects of the user experience. I think the ambient data of the tiles is so seductive. I love…

Thanks for that- very interesting because IE seems to have parity on the desktop- MS must be really working hard.

Did he use grid paper to do the schedule? Excel is really not very skeuomorphic. One variation on being more skeuomorphic would be that it came with various templates one of which …

Its not that a simpler shape isn't easier to process, its that its harder to infer purpose when there is so little information (like in the case of Metro). A button is something th…

Bashing skeuomorphism is the easy way out. Non physical affordances don't come easy, and like it or not our brains are trained in a world of 3 dimensions made of matter. Dieter Ram…

What are your favorite things? How is the HTML 5 rendering? How is the wifi? What are its biggest faults? What do you feel like you are missing? I am very curious. I am a long time…

The ipad app switching/closing/task bar gestures are pretty natural though. See them once and they are unforgettable.

Great little post and totally true. Related, the Airplay implementation is a good example of restraint in interaction design. Airfoil does much more, but it isn't as natural or eas…

The twitter clone is a proof of concept. A better description would be that its a paid social graph designed to be used by third party apps. Just like Facebook apps or apps that us…