Archive for the ‘User Interface’ Category

Facebook Friend Lists suck when compared to Google+ Circles

Early reviews of Google+ are in and they’re generally positive. Obviously, not everybody love Google’s latest social network experiment, but I’d like to debunk one piece of criticism that keeps being repeated over and over. And that is, that the Google+ Circles feature is basically the same thing as Facebook’s Friend Lists. Facebook Friend Lists [...]

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“Terror Messages” (cute error messages that scare you based on context)

So Delta has a cute “We’re Experiencing Some Turbulence” error message when they have an internal error on their website. I’ve seen this error many times before, I think the first time I chuckled a bit. The other day I was enjoying the new Wi-Fi Delta offers in some of their flights. I checked my [...]

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New screenshots of the JavaFX Design Tool

The screenshot above is from Anthony Rogers’ blog (UI designer for the tool), and the next one is from Chris Oliver’s blog, who successfully managed to hide away from most of the geek crowds at JavaOne. The design of the tool is looking really nice and clean, the timeline reminds me a bit of the [...]

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My JavaFX presentation at PanamaJUG 2007 (JavaFX en Español)

Last December I did a presentation about JavaFX in Spanish for the Panama Java User’s Group (JUG). This event took place in the city of Chitre, and was a lot of fun to participate in, specially since it gave me a chance to visit my native country. The presentation aimed to serve as an introduction [...]

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JavaFX

So yesterday at CommunityOne there were some hints about some developments on the Java client side. I guess it’s obvious to guess at this point, minutes before today’s JavaOne keynote that it’s going to be about JavaFX. This technology seems like a direct competitor with Adobe’s Flex and Microsoft’s Silverlight, and may leverage existing installations [...]

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Bad dialog practices …

  When I launch Netbeans 5.5, it seems I’ve installed some version control module that produces these two dialogs whenever I start the IDE. I still can’t figure out what the program wants me to do here. First of all, it has to be a bug and not a feature that it’s popping up 2 [...]

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