by Thomas Otter | January 21, 2009 | 2 Comments
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 what [...]
Category: cost optimization software industry UI usability Tags: monitors, productivity
by Thomas Otter | December 30, 2008 | 1 Comment
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 [...]
Category: software industry UI usability visualization Tags: GUI Design Usability
by Thomas Otter | December 23, 2008 | 5 Comments
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 [...]
Category: software industry UI usability Tags: Canonical, Design, Ubuntu
by Thomas Otter | December 13, 2008 | 4 Comments
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 [...]
Category: UI usability Tags: AJAX, formula 1, RIA, software design, UI, users
by Thomas Otter | November 26, 2008 | 8 Comments
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 [...]
Category: software industry UI usability Tags: GUI, users
