Recently, a student of my Interaction Design course at DePaul University asked about “ribbon” design in user interfaces. For you Microsoft Office users, you know what I mean – the new navigational element of the 2007 version. Anyway, she’s working on a fairly complex Windows-based application that is “used to drive specialized medical equipment that [...]

Like most design professionals I’m signed up for way too many email newsletters and discussion lists. Thank goodness for the digest feature. Somewhere that feature’s inventor is sitting at the same table as the “Copy and Paste” guy, talking about the old days in which their features didn’t exist and how hard a time they had it, [...]