- DAU Stories
- UI Design Thoughts
- UI Design Issues
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- UI Design Blinks 2013
- UI Design Blinks 2012
- UI Design Blinks 2011
- UI Design Blinks 2010
walodesign Columns - Overview
UI Design Stories (up to 2008) | UI Design Blinks (2010-2013)
By Gerd Waloszek
On my "column" pages, I present articles covering a number of user interface (UI) design topics. This page provides an overview of the articles that I published on this Website.
UI Design Stories (up to 2008)
These articles were originally published on an SAP-internal User Experience Website. The article series started at the end of 2004 - I closed that section at the end of 2008.
On this site, I republish my articles (a few have also been published on the SAP Design Guild Website) hoping that some visitors will find them useful and interesting. Of course, I removed all SAP specifics. The articles are assigned to three different categories:
- DAU Stories: Here I tell stories that deal with "stupid" users, that is, DAUs (DAU = dumbest assumable users) - usually, it's me.
- UI Design Thoughts: Here, I think about UI design in general.
- UI Design Issues: In these articles, I cover various UI design issues.
Below, I provide a complete list of the articles in the different groups. The articles are ordered by date, starting with the oldest articles (that is, they are NOT ordered like blogs...). For an overview of the respective sections and short descriptions of the articles, click the "overview" links.
DAU Stories (up to 2008)
- The Fingers Know – Password Hassles
- Read or Blindly Follow Affordances?
- Baking Owls and Monkeys
- A New Use Case Standard – The Automatic Coffee Machine (ACM)
- A Skype Story of Mappings, Standards, and Modes
- A Story of Lost Files, Mental Models, and Questionable Designs
- A Victim of (Violated) Location Constancy
- Error of the Day – Mode Error
- Google & eBay Driving Me Crazy
- Those Easy Modern Times...
UI Design Thoughts (up to 2008)
To overview of Design Thoughts
- I Am not a Machine...
- Usable Applications Are Good for Your Health!
- A Branding Story – How the New Apple Logo Was Created
- Some Thoughts on Creativity
- Fighting the Rectangle
- To Err Is Human – A Two-Sided Issue...
- Which One Comes First, Object or Action?
- Looking into the Future – Web 4.0
- Works as Designed vs. Works as Expected
- Six Ways of Wearing an Apple iPod Shuffle
- Clicking is Easy – As Long as You Know Where to Click and How...
- My Disease – Amnesia to Previous Versions...
- Turning the Issues Upside Down...
UI Design Issues (up to 2008)
- The Long, Long Dropdown List...
- What Matters Most?
- Succeeding the Tog Test...
- Impressing Tog Even More...
- Others, Miscellaneous, and the Like...
- Hendrik Achenbach (Guest Author): Baby Hit Me One More Time
UI Design Blinks (2010-2013)
On the SAP Design Guild Website (the link leads to a respective article on the SAP User Experience Community), I started a column with short, blog-like articles called UI Design Blinks that were in the spirit of the articles presented above. The column was active from 2010 until my retirement in November 2013.
Here, I offer most of the articles (I left out a few articles that were specific to SAP, the SAP Design Guild, and the Interaction Design Foundation) with slight adaptations, because the SAP Design Guild Website archive has been closed in the meantime.
Maybe I will continue this column here one day (after my interest in design has returned...)
2013 Blog Roll
- November 22, 2013: Thank You and Good-Bye!
- November 20, 2013: A Lesson from Colin Ware's Book Information Visualization
- October 24, 2013: A Tour de Force of Designers in the Software Realm
- October 17, 2013: Keyboard Schizophrenia...
- October 8, 2013: Milking the Wooly Sow for Eggs
- October 2, 2013: Making Life "Easier" on Vacations?
- September 11, 2013: With a Smile on His (or Her) Face…
- August 30, 2013: Swinging Between Designing the Big and the Small Things
- August 6, 2013: Coffee Machines, the Burdens of Experience, Resulting Mental Models, and a Lack of Attention – and the Role of Design
- August 1, 2013: Suggestions for Expanding Don Norman's New Version of His Book The Design of Everyday Things
- July 17, 2013: A Journey Across Touchpoints at Heidelberg Main Station
- July 10, 2013: iPad Dog Salon (guest column)
- July 2, 2013: An Introduction to Milan Guenther's Book Intersection and to the Enterprise Design Framework It Presents
- June 18, 2013: About the Book Gamification at Work
- June 11, 2013: A Few Books and Links for Familiarizing Oneself with Charts and Dashboards (Data Visualization)
- June 7, 2013: Some Books and Links for Familiarizing Oneself with Information Visualization
- June 6, 2013: Design Guidelines with a Backup in Research – Are There Any?
- May 29, 2013: Modern Technology Is so Fast! At least, in Theory...
- May 23, 2013: Human Memory Is Fallible...
- April 19, 2013: Spring Awakened My iPad – and Old Questions
- March 21, 2013: More on Multiple Skyline Graphs
- February 12, 2013: Is the iPad – or Any Other Tablet Computer – a Productivity Tool?
- February 1, 2013: Bill Caemmerer on Multiple Skyline Graphs
- January 15, 2013: A New Approach to the Gamification of Websites – Finding the Relevant Content
2012 Blog Roll
- December 12, 2012: Meeting the Drum Again...
- December 5, 2012: A Few Books and Links for Familiarizing Oneself with Mobile
- November 28, 2012: Reviewing an E-book – Another Experience Report
- November 8, 2012: From GUIs to NUIs – The Torch Relay of "Direct" and "Intuitive" UIs
- October 16, 2012: Fitting a Device to Usage Habits – A Usability Lesson
- October 12, 2012: Designing for Beginners and Experts – Reviving an Old Design Proposal
- October 10, 2012: Sushi Rolls and the Effects of Contiguity and Redundancy
- September 14, 2012: Let the Graph Tell Us the Answer
- September 12, 2012: Completing My Designing the User Interface Collection – at Least for the Time Being
- September 1, 2012: Design Thinking, Interaction Design, and UI Design
- August 16, 2012: Rounding Off My Designing the User Interface Collection
- August 15, 2012: Users Don't Have Goals and Don't Do Tasks – Do They?
- August 8, 2012: Now I Know What "Cloud" Means
- July 20, 2012: Bridging the Gap Revisited – Are UI Patterns Removing the Mystery from Design?
- July 3, 2012: Retrospect after Five Weeks of Owning an iPad
- May 31, 2012: First Encounters with Gestures – Viewing Photos
- May 30, 2012: Finally Adopting "Mobile" – The End of a Long-Term Refusal
- April 18, 2012: Wearable Computing
- March 27, 2012: Visual Aesthetics
- March 13, 2012: Context-Aware Computing and Activity Theory
- March 1, 2012: More Experiments with Skyline Graphs
- February 21, 2012: Skyline Graphs – New Insights on the Horizon...
- February 15, 2012: Disruptive Innovation
- January 11, 2012: Affective Computing
2011 Blog Roll
- November 29, 2011: Bike Speedometers and Some Worst-Case Use Cases (or Scenarios)
- November 16, 2011: Technology Serves People???
- October 18, 2011: Processing "pour l'art!"
- October 12, 2011: A Matter of (Visual) Perception...
- August 11, 2011: Don't Take My 4:3 Monitor Away from Me – or Perhaps You Can? Looking at the Options for Portrait Monitors, and My Conclusions
- August 10, 2011: What Is a Usability Issue?
- August 9, 2011: Don't Take my 4:3 Monitor Away from Me – or Perhaps You Can? Checking the Feasibility of Portrait Monitors
- August 9, 2011: Don't Take my 4:3 Monitor Away from Me – or Perhaps You Can?
- May 23, 2011: Full Press Snap and Dumb Users Who Do Not Know Their Cameras...
- April 13, 2011: UI Guidelines Are a Developer's (or UI Designer's) Best Friends!
- April 12, 2011: Missing and Misleading Error Messages from a Bank Statement Printer...
- March 30, 2011: Enriching and Not-So-Enriching Complexity
- March 10, 2011: The Plagues of Modern Times (1) – Online Software Updates
- March 8, 2011: A Clash of Conceptual Models Leads to Credit Card Hassles...
- February 2, 2011: The Blessings of Auto-Complete
2010 Blog Roll
- December 16, 2010: Caught in an Accessibility Trap...
- December 14, 2010: Virtual Possessions
- December 7, 2010: Processing Strikes Back: Simple Table Lenses Programmed Using Processing
- November 25, 2010: Excel Strikes Back: Bye-Bye Processing – Hello Excel?
- November 16, 2010: Bye-Bye Excel – Hello Processing!
- November 12, 2010: Annotators Not Welcome in the Age of Ebooks
- October 20, 2010: A Lengthy Substantiation of Jeff Johnson's Book, Designing with the Mind in Mind
- October 7, 2010: People, Elevators, and Sustainability...
- October 7, 2010: User Experience??? Hmmm...
- October 7, 2010: Means and Thresholds as Attractors – The Boomerang Effect
Last Revision: 05/29/2016
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