Fitts' Law: So you think you are an interaction designer? Not if you cannot answer all the following questions quickly and with authority.
With LAIKA, there is finally a font that can seamlessly use the whole spectrum of its cuts. A font that is able to move between its extremes in real time. An interactive font that is able to respond to its surroundings.
howtos on Audacity, Kino, motiongraphics, PD, streaming and whatnot
This is a PyQt4 tutorial. The tutorial is suited for beginners and intermediate programmers. After reading this tutorial, you will be able to program non trivial PyQt4 applications.
The VGA tester is a simple circuit with a microcontroller which shows a test screen on a VGA display
GTK+ audio-oriented widget elements
CANDIES (short for: Candie's an Animated Nested Design Interface Elements Set) is an LGPL2-licensed, OpenGL-powered Python GUI toolkit built on top of the Python clutter bindings
javascript interface library based on mochikit
a DIY Linux phone!
ArtSoftware.org is a wiki for sharing information about free and open source art software
great archive of GUI history
infoviz library for flash
true for big and small fish alike
coding theory
a shareware primer from '93
controlling lcd's with arduino
marius watz
i love you katapult
The geonames.org geographical database is available for download free of charge under a creative commons attribution license.
A user interface is well-designed when the program behaves exactly how the user thought it would.
Good/provoking food for thought for us print+web designers: 'If you are a print designer, and “do websites on the side”, STOP DOING websites and providing “advice” to your print clients about web design.'
The Gentoo Xeffects Wiki is a wiki maintained by the best of the community to provide valid documentation for users. This helps alleviate the problems in an open wiki where anyone posts what they think is right, and not what is proven.
which went on to become a staple model in Vista/OS X
Where the Firefox logo came from (and a variety of other graphic/web work)
This article describes techniques you can use to create new levels of usefulness in your dynamically generated charts. Cook up some automatically generated graphs for your organizational meetings or live enterprise directory data.
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.
Once upon a time, computers were controlled by commands. The interaction paradigm was based upon a control language. Then graphical user interfaces (GUI) appeared.
All kinds of insight about pie menus
Bitmap fonts for terms
The Warper is a single lens projector that attaches to your computer monitor and allows you to enlarge and project images onto a wall, movie screen, white sheet, etc.
Uni-Form is an attempt to standardize form markup (xhtml) and css, "modularize" it, so even people with only basic knowledge of these technologies can get nice looking, well structured, highly customizable, semantic, accessible and usable forms.
Critical thoughts on Adobe's Digital Negative (DNG) raw file format