UI vs. UX design
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- shapesalad1
My old falling apart wallet, made by "Lorenzo, Paris."
Vintage. Bought from a used items shop in Tokyo.Would love to buy a replacement but all the wallets these days have terrible UX, the coin holder opens upwards:
Whereas my trusty Lorenzo nails the UX and opens side ways.
The main direction to open a billfold wallet - to gain access to credit cards and note -is to open the wallet by unfolding sideways.
So it makes sense to have the coin holder also open sideways. The same UI method, you can quickly open wallet for coins, or for cards all with the same hand movement.
- True that. Nice wallet..set
- Lorenzo in the Benzosofakingback
- looks like toastrobotron3k
- Not bad.notype
- but coins are a thing of the past ;-)Krassy
- chukkaphob2
- looiks like something out of akiratrooperbill
- A peek into the backendAl_dizzle
- omg my anxietysofakingback
- chukkaphob1
- make it solar powered and we've got Perpetuum MobileKrassy
- sted6
Designing Windows 95’s User Interface
Three years ago I came across an interesting paper written up by a Microsoft employee, Kent Sullivan, on the process and findings of designing the new user interface for Windows 95. The web page has since been taken down – one reason why I’m a bit of a digital hoarder.
- 'design' is a loose term for copying the mac interface.hotroddy
- This is solid gold. Thanks for the linkCalderone2000
- That grey colour used in the UI just makes me depressed looking at it. The bright dark blue does nothing to help.shapesalad
- ^ yup. it just looks sadGnash
- @hotroddy lol copying mac, do you know apple also copied someone else?fadein11
- Apple copied Xerox, Anyway I find bottom left start menu is better than top leftdrgs
- nice link - bookmarked. As for being a Mac copy - Windows95 was a revelation. EVERYONE got a computer when it came out. It was the iphone of OS'smonNom
- You have to remember too that Apple was still on System 7 (released 1991) and had basically stopped innovating. https://www.youtube.…monNom
- ^ that's not true. the software innovation lull is a more recent one, I thinkGnash
- ^ the fact that MS came in with win95 and ate their lunch, including taking a big portion of the education market, would point to a company resting on its lauremonNom
- Apple was way ahead of MS, but they didn't hold their lead.monNom
- did apple have laurels to rest on in 91? they were still struggling for marketshare back then, as far as I remember. I could be wrongGnash
- what's the benchmark for lead anyway? money?monospaced
- Lead in terms of sophistication of their OS, the Mac was way ahead of the PC in many ways up until win95.monNom
- haha, okaymonospaced
- chukkaphob1
- Tunnel Bunnies Unite®utopian
- Masturbation proofrobotron3k
- Seeith thy deed, but not thine face.ETM
- ukit20
Better to think of them as descriptive terms rather than mutually exclusive. Just like you can be a painter, conceptual artist, etc at the same time, user experience designer, UI designer, interaction designer are all overlapping terms that mean slightly different things.
User experience is usually meant to suggest knowledge of usability principles and a process based approach that includes wireframing, user flow diagrams etc. I think the term was invented by Jacob Nielsen's company, and then popularized when Jesse James Garett (same guy who came up with the term AJAX) published a book called The Elements of User Experience.
These days if you look at UI/ interactive jobs, most of them will say UX designer because they want someone who has some knowledge of usability and wireframing even if the job also includes visual design.
- sted3
- nb0
- This has nothing do with UI or UX of coursenb
- Union labour vs the People's tax moneyzarkonite
- What a shit job, no matter what. Do you even steam roll, bro?ETM
- it's a temporary surface, no?
It best be..detritus - nah that's the fucking road, they just don't care. Shit like that happens all the time in Montreal, they unions don't even bother pretending they're not thieveszarkonite
- chukkaphob1
- hail satancannonball1978
- these little bastards are the devilmoldero
- sarahfailin4
- UI design v. Plumbing Designcannonball1978
- Fahrvergnügenutopian
- chukkaphob1
- "Here's the door to your new corner office! Just kidding... you're fired!"ETM
- ^ Now... get out of... here... *looks around confused*cannonball1978