Lifehacker profiles a new netbook OS:
Chrome OS is a promising cloud-based operating system, but the big complaint most people have about it is that Chrome OS is entirely browser-based. New netbook OS Jolicloud is a lot like Chrome OS, but with the addition of killer desktop apps.
Tom Johnson applies this design principle to documentation:
But is less always more? I’m not sure. But if Apple’s minimalistic designs are any indicator of trends, minimalism in documentation is something to pay attention to. Here are five ideas for minimizing documentation…
I’m pretty impressed with the work Pentagram did developing the Litl computer. Very cool design for the machine itself, and very nice GUI.
From 0.1 seconds to 10 years or more, user interface design has many different timeframes, and each has its own particular usability issues.
— Funny first line of David Sherwin’s blog post on the “verb problem” interaction designers will be presented with when working on augmented reality applications.
