walodesign Columns - Overview
On my "column" pages, I present stories and articles covering a number of user interface (UI) design topics. The articles are assigned to three different categories:
- DAU Stories: Here I tell stories that deal with "stupid" users, that is, DAUs (DAU = dumbest assumable users) - usually, it's me.
- UI Design Thoughts: Here, I think about UI design in general.
- UI Design Issues: In these articles, I cover various UI design issues.
I published these articles on an SAP-internal User Experience Website, but closed that section for a number of reasons in 2008. On this site, I republish my articles (a few have also been published on the SAP Design Guild Website) hoping that some visitors will find them useful and interesting. However, I removed all SAP specifics.
On this page, I provide a complete list of the articles in the different groups. The articles are ordered by date, starting with the oldest articles. Click the headlines for seeing the overviews of the respective sections and short descriptions of the articles.
DAU Stories
- The Fingers Know – Password Hassles
- Read or Blindly Follow Affordances?
- Baking Owls and Monkeys
- A New Use Case Standard – The Automatic Coffee Machine (ACM)
- A Skype Story of Mappings, Standards, and Modes
- A Story of Lost Files, Mental Models, and Questionable Designs
- A Victim of (Violated) Location Constancy
- Error of the Day – Mode Error
- Google & eBay Driving Me Crazy
- Those Easy Modern Times...
UI Design Thoughts
To overview of Design Thoughts
- I Am not a Machine...
- Usable Applications Are Good for Your Health!
- A Branding Story – How the New Apple Logo Was Created
- Some Thoughts on Creativity
- Fighting the Rectangle
- To Err Is Human – A Two-Sided Issue...
- Which One Comes First, Object or Action?
- Looking into the Future – Web 4.0
- Works as Designed vs. Works as Expected
- Six Ways of Wearing an Apple iPod Shuffle
- Clicking is Easy – As Long as You Know Where to Click and How...
- My Disease – Amnesia to Previous Versions...
- Turning the Issues Upside Down...
UI Design Issues
- The Long, Long Dropdown List...
- What Matters Most?
- Succeeding the Tog Test...
- Impressing Tog Even More...
- Others, Miscellaneous, and the Like...
- Hendrik Achenbach (Guest Author): Baby Hit Me One More Time
Last Revision: 02/13/2009
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