Sometimes, designing an intuitive user interface takes only stepping away from the project, and trying to think about how someone else might try to use an object. Most of the time though, you really need to see how the interface is used in the real world. The very best example I can think of this [...]
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Intuitive user interface design failure… when a doorknob isn’t.
April 23, 2012 by Mathew Eis. 1 Comment
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Why you can’t build that in a week
April 16, 2012 by Mathew Eis. No Comments
The recent news that Instagram was bought by Facebook has many in the industry protesting that such a simple app could be worth $1 billion. After all, they say, they could have built the app themselves in a week. Really though, this is largely just wishful thinking – and here’s why: 1) Instagram wasn’t built [...]
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Windows 8-bit 256 color palette
December 16, 2011 by Mathew Eis. No Comments
Some people like to say the internet is forever. Unfortunately, it’s not. I recently needed to track down a 256 color Windows system palettes from the Windows 95/98 era. In less than 20 years, the internet has all but forgotten what the color palette might have been. This is my best attempt at reconstructing it [...]
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JAVA Diamond Square Generator
October 27, 2010 by Mathew Eis. No Comments
For a proof-of-concept GLSL shader I’ve been working on, I needed a random Diamond Square texture as input; a little bit of work yielded me this JAVA applet, which I then was able to easily fine-tune for my needs: Source Code: (Download)
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Magic Triangle w/Kerberos in OS X 10.6
September 23, 2010 by Mathew Eis. No Comments
I was recently handed the task of integrating Mac OS X 10.6 into our so-called Magic Triangle authentication environment. To make things more interesting, Macs here are treated as UNIX workstations, and thus not bound to AD. A quick search on Google yielded a long discussion on Kerberos support (or not) in Mac OS X [...]