Surf*Mind*Musings

Ah yes, Mozilla is shaping up. The new file picker design is suitably 2002 with good folder navigation, a filter option, and a default detail view. File browsing is a notable UI issue for it's frequency of use and generally awful mouseMiles and clickCount issues (more).

Flazoom discusses a recent UIE report (?) on Flash. Some nice UI examples, but the doc is hopelessly biased towards Flash. UIE is (or maybe was) in my mind a highly respected UXP consulting firm that does robust user testing and data analysis. However, they don't have a damn clue about the capabilities of 5.0 browsers, based upon the following:

Figure 4: In an HTML application, there is no easy way for developers to gray out the credit card option In HTML, something as simple as graying out (or conditionally enabling and disabling input fields) on a data-entry screen based on business rules becomes very difficult. For example in an e-commerce application, when users specify they want to pay by check, there’s no easy way in HTML to gray out the data entry fields corresponding to credit card information.

Welcome to Cog Mod .com, a community /code for cognitive modeling.

Finally! RageBoy lives up to the potential that has always been apparent but rarely evidenced in his blog... check out a gonzo treatment of AI history if you're into that kinda thing.

There's a lot of work in home-based computing, looking at both ethnography and new technology. A very simple need that comes up in a multi-computer household with current technology is the need to share clipboard elements. A household shared display could maintain these.