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Gutenberg Diagram PSD Overlay

December 15, 2011 by sean 2 comments

The Gutenberg Diagram is a concept popularized by newspaper designer Edmund C. Arnold in which a display divided into four equal areas can help designers ensure that they are taking full advantage of a user’s reading gravity, the natural path that most peoples’ eyes will follow when being presented with information.  In Western cultures we [...]

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Microsoft continues to fail at User Interface Design

July 15, 2011 by sean Leave a comment

I gave up on Microsoft improving their product interfaces a long time ago, but they still occasionally shock me with an especially terrible design decision.  Their new Outlook Web Access interface is an abomination.  I’ll eventually write up a post dissecting exactly why the whole UI is criminally awful, but for now I’m going to focus on [...]

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