Superidee: eine Art Barcamp für UX/UI-Designer. Relativ frisch das Ganze (seit November 2010) und aus London. Aber lokale Treffen sind erwünscht. Mal sehen, ob nicht in Frankfurt am Main so etwas auch möglich wäre …
Author Archives: wolfgang
New Mac OS X Lion GUI
Desktop publishing the open way
One of my favorite apps at the moment is a free and open source desktop publishing tool: Scribus.
You can create template pages and even measured drawings of e.g. a floor plan. Only caveat: the GUI isn’t very Mac-like (it is based on the “Qt” framework) and even worth the behavior is sometimes a bit wired: selected text (looks like selected text) isn’t selected. But: it’s for free and maybe there will be an update soon (version I use: 1.3.9).
View and comment PDF files
A great tool to view and comment PDF files is SKIM.
One of my favorite little features is the dynamic scaling: hold option and mouse-scroll. Awesome and missing in Apple Preview. And sure there are more “real” and powerful features …
see conference #6
Maybe we’ll meet at the see #6?
9. April 2011 in Wiesbaden, Germany
Best diary and notes iPhone app
Meemo: a good and free app for taking notes in categories and with a diary function. All notes are stamped by a date and time. Special feature is the backup function: the SQLite database can be converted to a CSV file using the Mac tool “SQL-” and thus be edited and analysed in more detail afterwards.
It is also a good tool to get some ideas sorted.
http://itunes.apple.com/de/app/meemo-note-diary-alarm/id386598059?mt=8
Create “barrierefreies” web
Next thingy to learn and discuss for me …
http://www.w3.org/Translations/WCAG20-de/ (german version)
Collection of GUI examples in films
Very entertaining, but tehre might be more examples out in Hollywood and co.
http://accessmaincomputerfile.net/
A summary of design rules – Jef Raskin
Just some thoughts on principles of human interface design rules. To not forget!
“Tangible” mobile devices
Aus dem Telekom-Labor: Ideen für mobile Devices von Morgen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAhS7ET1960&feature=player_embedded