Notebook
August 26th, 2006 by Daniel J. Wilson

The Installer icon could use differently colored arrows to communicate the progress of the installation process.

Multiple simultaneous installations would have to be aggregated.
Icon badges might be better due to color perception differences. Yes, I’m aware of the large percentage of people with color blindness.

As suggested in the comments, the orange pie progress badge would [...]

August 20th, 2006 by Daniel J. Wilson

The inline searching seen in the 10.5 Help menu could be used in other menus.

Providing searching in the Bookmarks menu in browsers and the menu immediately right of the Application (File/Document/Thingamajig) would also make sense. The default search scope would be filetypes the application can open or import.
This type of inline searching would provide the [...]

August 12th, 2006 by Daniel J. Wilson

Not so stingy with the RAM in the Pro models! I want one.
Who will be the first to use the Time Machine APIs to create a web browser history?
Regarding the interface of virtual desktops Spaces, Mac Murrett created a switcher called Workspaces that worked like Exposé for desktops several years ago, though it only runs [...]