Most applications are designed to help people get their job done, so the success of an application often depends largely on how people use it. Many application development teams falsely assume that ...

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Those aren’t the worst things people could say about a user interface, but would you be confident that a “pretty” or “OK” user interface is capable of taking your organization to the next level? How ...

Consistent user interfaces across applications are thought to facilitate transfer of learning because a user can draw on existing knowledge when using a new application. But despite the interface ...

Google’s Android 4, codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS), debuts later this month on the much-anticipated Galaxy Nexus smartphone. This major new version of Android includes a redesigned user interface ...

Software has never looked cooler, but user interface design and user experience have taken a sharp turn for the worse. When we first got the personal computer, we didn’t worry much about how things ...

Apple has filed for a patent for “user interfaces for health applications.” This hints that the tech giant is planning new features for its Health app or is planning new health-related apps. In the ...

[Jason Birch] just finished building a beautifully simple user interface for the Raspberry Pi. The goal was to keep it small and intuitive while still providing a range of functionality. His add-on ...

The workbench, which started out integrating dissimilar Java tools inside IBM in the mid-1990s, was brought into the public arena as open source code in 1998 and became a runaway success as a unifying ...