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Not The Users Fault

Open-source software needs better user-interface design in order to take over the world. Jono at Mozilla Labs discusses his 10 favorite issues with UI design.

This one calls for a good laugh “Is UI design marketing?”

The qualities of software that make for a good advertisement or computer-store demo are not the same qualities that make software usable and pleasant to work with long-term, day-in day-out. Often these qualities are opposites.

We should be grateful for decent well-designed software that is not only elegant but a blend of intuitive and easy to remember. It is so often not the case.

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Stays in the shadows, Jonathan Ive

Jonathan Ive

Apple chief designer, shy from public viewing, says a few rare words in Business Week:

His design process revolves around intense iteration — making and remaking models to visualize new concepts.

“One of the hallmarks of the team I think is this sense of looking to be wrong,” said Ive at Radical Craft. “It’s the inquisitiveness, the sense of exploration. It’s about being excited to be wrong because then you’ve discovered something new.”