Ultimate guide to table UI patterns
Most of these links are also mirrored on http://designingwebinterfaces.com, the accompanying website for this book. The latter introduces 6 design principles which are illustrated here.
These example sites can serve as references to explain what RIAs are about.
…for some people, work is personal. Personal in the same way that singing or playing the piano or painting is personal.
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Creation is entirely dependent on ownership.
Ownership not as a percentage of equity, but as a measure of your ability to change things for the better.
Bill Scott, former UI director at Netflix and author of “Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions”, defines RIAs (Rich Internet Applications) to have these characteristics:
- The user interacts with items on the page and the feedback is immediate.
- The page does not have to refresh to complete the user’s interaction
- The page can be more like a canvas or desktop with content being objects the user interacts with
As opposed to traditional page based sites which behave as follows:
- The user enters information at the page level or clicks on a link to go to another page
- The page refreshes to show the result of the user’s request
- Everything is framed in the context of a page or document that has content
Looks neat. Maybe I can use it the next time planning a vacation.
Go and read the whole post. These paragraphs hit me most:
Which means that as the world becomes more addictive, the two senses in which one can live a normal life will be driven ever further apart. One sense of “normal” is statistically normal: what everyone else does. The other is the sense we mean when we talk about the normal operating range of a piece of machinery: what works best.
These two senses are already quite far apart. Already someone trying to live well would seem eccentrically abstemious in most of the US. That phenomenon is only going to become more pronounced. You can probably take it as a rule of thumb from now on that if people don’t think you’re weird, you’re living badly.
On internet addiction:
People commonly use the word “procrastination” to describe what they do on the Internet. It seems to me too mild to describe what’s happening as merely not-doing-work. We don’t call it procrastination when someone gets drunk instead of working.
Continued:
Most people I know have problems with Internet addiction. We’re all trying to figure out our own customs for getting free of it. That’s why I don’t have an iPhone, for example; the last thing I want is for the Internet to follow me out into the world. My latest trick is taking long hikes. I used to think running was a better form of exercise than hiking because it took less time. Now the slowness of hiking seems an advantage, because the longer I spend on the trail, the longer I have to think without interruption.
Sounds pretty eccentric, doesn’t it? It always will when you’re trying to solve problems where there are no customs yet to guide you. Maybe I can’t plead Occam’s razor; maybe I’m simply eccentric. But if I’m right about the acceleration of addictiveness, then this kind of lonely squirming to avoid it will increasingly be the fate of anyone who wants to get things done. We’ll increasingly be defined by what we say no to.
Serious gold nuggets expressed by Stephen Fry to be found in here, like
Technology is like a mirror. If an idiot looks in, you can’t expect an opossum to look out.
On success of social networks:
Everybody has a talent to interact with other people.
He believes goal orientation is fatal:
The worst thing you can do is set goals. If you don’t meet them, you failed and if you met them, then what?
Work is more fun than fun (Noel Coward).
Other people are always more interesting than oneself.
If you just say “I” all the time, you get nowhere.
Philosophical:
If life has any meaning, it’s abnegation of self.
The most wonderful to be given in life is the ability to give.
Sharing the benefits of life is the benefit of life.
Travel:
The best way to reinvent oneself.
You don’t know anything about your own country if you haven’t left it for travelling.
On creativity:
The desire to be individual and the wish to be part of a tribe makes people creative.
Closing comment:
All the great words are dwarfed by kindness.
And many more valuable thoughts and insights. 30 wisely spent minutes.
The original iPhone was great on day one. It couldn’t do as much as today’s iPhone, but it performed its feature-set extremely well. There were almost no rough edges or unpolished areas in its hardware or software, and nearly everything seemed justifiable, well conceived, and well executed.
Apple…
