Archive for the ‘ user interface ’ Category

Xbox Dashboard Update Fixes UI Flaw

The November 1, 2010 Xbox Dashboard update has finally fixed one of my biggest annoyances with the interface: the lack of visible indication for preceding items in lists of tiles. Now, you can see the “tail” of the previous item on the left side of the screen before the selected tile, where previously there was [ READ MORE ]

More On The Ideas Behind Ubiquity

Video demo of Enso, which was where a lot of the Ubiquity concepts started[ READ MORE ]

LCD Theme Status 20060531-0017

I’m hacking on LCD a bit for the first time in some weeks. Trying to pick up where i left off on the new Options window. But also wanted to get down as a reminder that the Downloads and Extensions windows look horrible. A lot of little things are busted in those windows, but it’s [ READ MORE ]

More On Bug 235277 And The Flex Hack

My patch for Bug 235277 was essentially my “flex hack” that i developed while working on LCD. It uses the -moz-flex style property to force an element to fill the available space in its container, and then flips that object’s orientation in its container using -moz-orient: vertical so that it expands vertically instead of horizontally. [ READ MORE ]

notes 20060204-1214

The network error pages are naked, as they derive their styles from global/netError.css, which i haven’t set up yet. This brings up a usability sticking point because if i style the page in LCD fashion, it won’t look like the standard error and may confuse people. On the other hand, i like to be complete, [ READ MORE ]

The Years