Bad Usability Calendar
By Mims Wright | on February 7, 2008
In Links, Site-seeing, User Interface Design | No Comments
A Norwegian usability firm called NetLife Research has put out their 2008 version of the Bad Usability Calendar. Check it out for the lulz and don’t forget to visit the archive page for more.
Head Tracking VR Display with WiiMote
By Mims Wright | on January 25, 2008
In Hacks, Links, News, OMGWTFBBQ, Site-seeing, User Interface Design, Video Games | 1 Comment
Johnny Chung Lee is my nerd hero!
The State pattern in Flex - combining view states with logical states
By Mims Wright | on January 23, 2008
In AS3, Flex, Hacks, Programming, Software Design, Tutorial, User Interface Design | 2 Comments
If you’ve used Flex, you’ve no doubt (er, hopefully) been using View States (AKA <mx:State>) to change the look of your RIA as it progresses through different situations of use. While this is immeasurably useful, it does not necessarily qualify as an implementation of the State Design Pattern which allows you to change not only how a component looks but how it functions as well.
(for more on design patterns, read my favorite book Head first design patterns).
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