Browsing Sound by Sight, Expanded
May 28th, 2005 by Daniel J. Wilson
A minor modification to the iTunes visual browser.
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May 26th, 2005 by Daniel J. Wilson
Design suggestions for MovieGallery, a movie manager for Mac OS X.
10.4: Drag-and-Drop To The Dock Needs Work
May 25th, 2005 by Daniel J. Wilson
Apple has partially implemented object drag-and-drop to the Dock.
Spotlight Results with Delicious Library Artwork
May 24th, 2005 by Daniel J. Wilson
Delicious Library’s Spotlight result display would be better if the results included artwork and whichever metadata string matched the query (displayed next to the item’s name as with my previous Spotlight mockups).
Spotlight results for Frank Herbert
Spotlight results for Robin Williams
Update: Delicious Library items do indeed include their artwork in the Spotlight results window, but [...]
iTunes Item Menus
May 23rd, 2005 by Daniel J. Wilson
The contact action menus found in Apple’s Mail could also be used in iTunes to provide direct access to information and actions related to an artist, composer, or album.
Random Cool 10.4 Observation: the “Black & White” desktop picture collection is very nice.
Hacking the SubEthaEdit Collaboration Experience
May 18th, 2005 by Daniel J. Wilson
Last June, Robb Beal invited me to join him via IM in brainstorming a better SubEthaEdit document collaboration experience. For this improvisatory review we both used SEE v2.0.1, which was then the latest release (the collaboration interface has not changed appreciably in subsequent releases).
Robb Beal and Daniel J. Wilson review SubEthaEdit’s document collaboration
A summary [...]
GrowlMail Notifications - Now in Technicolor!
May 17th, 2005 by Daniel J. Wilson
Another e-mail notifications design mockup.
10.4 PDF Metadata: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
May 16th, 2005 by Daniel J. Wilson
Documents exported to PDF now have metadata embedded in them, but it isn’t from the logical source.
Comments on Mac OS X 10.4
May 15th, 2005 by Daniel J. Wilson
First, congratulations are in order to all the Apple and open source people who contributed to the 10.4 release — my 800MHz iMac feels like a new computer and using it is generally more pleasant. On to the issues and suggestions…
General Issues
Regarding the leveraging of Fitts’ Law by the Apple and Spotlight menus, Apple [...]
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I am Daniel J. Wilson; a musician (drums), interaction designer, and proud member of the reality-based community.
