4 private links
blog by a GNOME hacker/UI designer
great archive of GUI history
radical and clever take on computer science tradition and discourse
useful for growl-like functionality (and runs on cairo)
true for big and small fish alike
a shareware primer from '93
i love you katapult
Where the Firefox logo came from (and a variety of other graphic/web work)
The ubiquity of frustrating, unhelpful software interfaces has motivated decades of research into “Human-Computer Interaction.” In this paper, I suggest that the long-standing focus on “interaction” may be misguided.
creating eye candy for xfce desktops
Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for unix-like operating systems. It aims to be fast and lightweight, while still being visually appealing and easy to use. pyxfce are xfce bindings for python.