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Is Stream-oriented a better UI paradigm than Document-oriented for today's knowledge workers?
Really, what I mostly do today is stream management. And I suspect this is true for the vast majority of people. I don’t deal with writing documents, but with changes to documents. I put comments onto things. I slap patches onto things. I tweak the states of things. Once in a rare while I may author a completely new thingee, but even there I usually end up working with it as a stream of changes that I build up over time (and usually in collaboration with a few other people who stream changes to me).Home - Pencil Project
if this is as good as it seems, it will change a lot in the way I work
Top 5 tips to decrease the load time of your websites via images
The website has a global reach but Internet connection speeds in various countries are not the same. A lot of dial-ups and slow broadband connections still exist. Even for those who do have high-speed connections, the total number of relevant websites on the Internet is growing fast. This directly translates into less time spent by the viewer per web page. But the main problem for the delay in loading website is huge graphics, which are not in well formed manner.Amazing Java Swing screenshots
Palantir Technologies has released updated screenshots of their desktop Swing applications. They really show how far you can take swing if you're willing to put in a little work and depart from the stock widgets.5 Useful, Free Graphics Apps
I work with so many different kinds of graphics that I’m always on the lookout for applications and utilities that can make working with them easier. In the world of freeware and open source software, you can find many good applications. Here are five examples.In Search Of The Perfect UI
All the user interfaces are created within an established paradigm that we are used to. Is there a way of going beyond the paradigm? Is it possible to create the perfect UI? To make a brand new way of interaction between people and computers?User Never Reads Manual
A real world example of the fact that user never reads manual.How a Change on Design Improves Usability and Visits
A small change could improve a website usability a lot. Sometimes, that could also drive a lot a traffic to it. I have a clear example about that. These are the Design vs Art Blog feed subscription stats...Firefox 3: Why Tabs Are Upside Down?
Installing the new Firefox 3 was an easy task. The browser seems to work, on a Mac, better than the previous version. Although that, Firefox still has some usability issues. I don’t want to make a complete review but I would like to highlight the first issue I noticed: using the default skin, the tabs are upside down and not linked to the page they refer.What’s wrong with GUIs
GUIs are so pervasive in today’s computing and development environment that some people have never seriously used an alternative method of interacting with a computer.Class that any Swing application can't live without
Brief overview of small class that any professionally developed Swing application should use.Using Animation In Your RIA Design
Nearly every RIA development framework out there has some amount of built in or easy to employ animations, whether it be Flex’s effects, states and transitions, a JavaScript framework like JQuery and Interface or Prototype with Script.aculo.us, or Silverlight’s Storyboard animations and the VisualState Manager, you can find toolkits that will assist you in creating optimized animations, many complete with easing and callback functions. Here is an article to help you decide what techniques to use to inform and empower your users when designing interface feedback with animation.Domain Specific Languages: Doing more, with less
Domain specific languages are designed to make it easy to solve problems in their problem domain. Could they be used to help end-users on the desktop?[from jaz] That design is money!
A better ATM experience from Wells Fargo
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