Thomas Otter

I’m convinced that too many user interfaces are trapped by tyrannies of table and text. I while ago about blogged about many enterprise software UIs being like Donuts. Via Steve Clayton this arrived in my feedreader this morning. It is goodness. Someone give this fellow some HR system UIs to work on.
 
 

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I took a brief detour to the TED website this morning.  I watched Malcolm Gladwell’s talk from February 2004. TED is a dangerous site. People have been known to disappear in it for months.

Click here if you don’t see the screen.
Watching it is 20 minutes well spent, even if you aren’t a big spaghetti [...]

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There has been some discussion here in Gartner about monitors and productivity for developers and knowledge workers.
Many of us work from home, and several have multi-monitor set ups. This is Mark’s set up.

Here is mine. I’m feeling a tad inadequate. A mere 22"wide screen monitor and my T61 notebook screen.

Depending on [...]

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A few weeks ago I posted about GUIs and steering wheels, and before that on the designer of the Nissan GT-R’s relentless focus on detail. Another thing struck me about the GT-R – the dashboard design.

At the Tokyo Auto Show, Nissan honcho Carlos Ghosn unveiled the GT-R. The car, which hits the US next [...]

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Warning I’m definitely not an expert in open source operating systems. (George is)
Readers of this blog will have noted that I have an interest in design thinking. A good portion of my Christmas wish list is made up of books on design, and I will continue to inflict more of my design inspired ramblings [...]

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The Benz museum in Ladenburg is a regular haunt of mine. In walking distance of my house I can see one the of the first cars ever made.

It is one of the finest collection of vintage and significant cars as you will find anywhere, other than at the other Benz  museum in Stuttgart. It [...]

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In my job I get to see a lot of enterprise applications. From all sorts of vendors. At least 95% of them suffer from what I call the donut syndrome.

(from the cc flickrstream of tinymeme. thankyou)
They have all sorts of funky controls around the edges of the screen, but middle bit, where you [...]

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