Archive for the 'SaaS User Interface Design' Category

SaaS and the Cloud are great. You have all your data available easily and from wherever.
If you are doing a good job and have great API’s to extract from and enter data into your application you open the true gates of heaven.
Being a fan of Tim Berner Lee’s call for action: RAW DATA NOW! it [...]


How much fun, a desktop OS from Google. Not a surprise, but still a nice message to shake it all up a bit.
CNET calls it a nuclear bomb and I guess it is.
What does that al mean for the UX sector?
Make our life easier. Maybe one day we can stop developing .exe´s and apps for [...]


Mozilla build a great plugin for Firefox using a command line/search box that can take pre-build commands as well as natural language commands.
See it as a mix of Google, Wolfram Alpha, the good old command line and one of those helmets that knows what you are thinking.
For example, you write an email with an address [...]


Lately I have been looking into the possibilities of merging the command line and the search box. Remember that nice black screen with the flashing white cursor?
The promise of the blinking cursor
Having loads of options in front of you, but no idea which ones? You could do whatever you want, but first you had to [...]


There is quite a bunch of software on the market to create realistic prototypes, wireframes using the designs made in Photoshop, Illustrator etc.
It looks great but it partly misses the point in my opinion.
The whole joy of a wireframe is that it is fast, that you can check it fast and that it doesn’t look [...]


As a user experience designer you can get better results if you can design the whole user process from start to end.
In this ideal world everybody uses your software/application and it would solve all problems someone can have and you would be burned out because that would be too much work.
That’s a pity then, so [...]


Step by step we will get there: Having the speed of the desktop and the flexibility of the web.
Google just launched a new version of their “Native Client” and now they launched “O3D” a plug-in that lets Web-based applications tap into a computer’s graphics chip, too.
Although it looks like we are in an initial stage, [...]


Currently I am working on different ways of visualizing computer networks and support sessions.
At the moment this must be one of the most advancing fields of work. Especially after seeing Microsoft Photosynth, Cooliris, Microsoft sphere and the presentation of their Sixth Sense at TED of MIT Media lab.
It keeps on having the Wow effect. So now the [...]


Sometimes you just need to be reminded of the basics. Normally I use checklists to go through at various stages of the design process.
Does it all still make sense? Is it still in line with the original objectives? Am I not forgetting the basics?
One of those basics is Nielsen & Norman’s “10 Usability Heuristics“, the [...]


MIT media lab has been having fun and the results are even better. They created a really cool and rather realistic (at least, that’s how it looks) way to immerse in full environment interaction with a small wearable device.
> Check out the TED video