A criticism of the iOS iPhoto UI

A great blog full of categorised screenshots representing iOS design patterns.

UIKit is a small collection of flexible, decoupled jQuery JavaScript components for the modern web. With an emphasis on structure-only styling it's easy to style UIKit to match your application, no preprocessor variables, just raw CSS structure! As a result most of the styling you see in this document is for demonstration only.

UI buttons in the wild. Massive collection, good fodder.

Free icons for 3rd party signin services: twitter, facebook, openid

The goal is not to make your user interface as realistic as possible. The goal is to add those details which help users identify what an element is, and how to interact with it, and to add no more than those details. UI elements are abstractions which convey concepts and ideas; they should retain only those details that are relevant to their purpose. UI elements are almost never representations of real things. Adding too much realism can cause confusion.

Against confusing dialog boxes: "Make a decision in your software! Be Bold! Be Brave! Don’t lay the impetus on me (the user) to understand certificates, SSL, file version incompatibilities, and other computer bull shit."

Excellent analysis by Tantek Çelik regarding what makes software <i>feel</i> easier and more fun to use. This is a must-read.

On any given Web page, users will either... (a) click something that appears to take them closer to the fulfillment of their goal, or (b) click the Back button on their Web browser.