UI usability solution I am especially proud of

25 or so years ago we were designing one accounting application that required intensive input of numbers by operators. That was in Russia at the time when personal computers were just appearing in offices massively. Amount of numeric data that operators needed to input was enormous and as in any financial institution the requirement for…

Omni

Mr Ramon F. Mendes have published his Omni tools that allow to use Microsoft Visual Studio to design markup and Sciter specific code: I’d recommend to give a try to this great tools, you will love them!

Skeuomorphism vs flat in UI.

They say that skeuomorphism in UIs is bad but that flat thing that they came up with instead is actually even worse. Most of the time it gives no visual clue to the user. There are two “Trim”s here: one is clickable button, another one is static label… It is not a UI anymore –…

Can I get checkboxes back somehow?

I think it is something wrong with modern variations of checkboxes. Consider this iOS version: It is not clear is it in “On” state or you need to click on “On” label to switch it on? But people from Windows 8 usability team went even further with their version: Am I the only one who…