What is the best way to design an interface and make sure it is what your customers want? You could always follow the Apple or Microsoft method and just force feed it to consumers, but why not just ask consumers what they want? KDE is doing just that and has started KDE Brainstorm, a forum [...] Read more »

The history of operating systems is a pretty amazing one especially when you can see many of them together and compare them.  Webdesigner Depot has an excellent article on the history of OS interface design showing the various GUI based operating systems. One thing that is extremely evident when looking at the various designs is [...] Read more »

I have to admit that I am not a fan of Windows Mobile and I really dislike the honeycomb interface.  Today however Long Zheng has an excellent post explaining why it is actually a very efficient interface and an intelligent design.  Microsoft does spend a lot of money on research to try and find the [...] Read more »