Someone has been dressing up the T-Bana (Stockholm’s subway/Metro/Tube system).

So what’s wrong with Adobe’s UI: Well this is a very funny tumbl log of plenty of comments of things that could be done better:

http://adobegripes.tumblr.com/

Things that particularly standout are issues with there cross-platform UI. Although praised by many as a good example, it just shows that some of the finer details are missed.

Via UIEye.

From http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/001395.html

Really interesting talk hosted by Panavision about Digital Camera systems.

http://media.panavision.com/ScreeningRoom/Screening_Room/Demystifying_Part1_480p.html

First part is about pixels and worth watching if you have ever wondered what is resolution and what is a pixel about in the camera domain.

This is just great:

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/01/redesigning-a-u.html

A summary of the post that basically Bug Labs has hired IDEO to redesign their hardware user interface for BUGbase and to do it in the open.

Updates on the design process can be sees at: Bug Blog, Bug Community, and the IDEO blog.

A nice start to the series History of Python.

Arstechnica does its usual good job of looking in depth at Windows 7 Beta, and then they compare it to Vista:

“Windows 7 shouldn’t make anything any worse”

Outstanding.

Words in inspire user experience designers: http://www.inspireux.com/.

Nice list of quotes, one to add to the news reader that’s for sure.

I particularly agree with:

“In design, space is not the problem. Attention is.”
“Making assumptions about our users leads us to design for ourselves”
“The worst misstep one can make in design is to solve the wrong problem”

I use SVN (subversion) quite a bit, even at home to manage my own files, but recently I have been running the beta version for Versions by Sofa and Pico.

It turned into an excellent way of using SVN, being very visual and supporting everything that I needed, but alas the Beta period ran out and they released Versions 1.

Now I was all for buying this application, but the purchase price of 39 Euros totally puts my of. After all this is a nice to have, and only improves my life slightly. It just doesn’t seem worth the price – particularly when most software like this for OS X is about half the price (I would have easily decided to buy it for 20 Euros).

So after deciding whether to hack it, not really an option any more as I like to have all paid for or properly licensed software on my machines, or search for something else I looked back at what I could use.

SVN from the command line. So I started using this again, and I found myself checking in versions of things that are not ready and not having a nice overview of files. It works of course, but it didn’t suit my way of working since using versions – checking in some files, and generally knowing the status of projects that I am working on.

Then I went back to the SVN plugin for Finder. This is ok, but more often than not the rendering of icons showing whether a folder is up to date or not stops working leaving me in the dark.

Then I decided to check out textmate SVN integration. Its ok, but not really good enough, I don’t like the keybindings and the interface is not intuitive enough.

Finally I came across the ProjectPlus plugin for Textmate. After installing just configure it in the preferences to work with what ever source revision system you use (Its supports SVN, Git, Mercurial, Svk & Bazaar), and you can see the state of what you are doing in the system.

The Palm Pre looks really interesting, not sure it will get me away from lusting after an iPhone – particularly for its OS X integration but I am glad Palm is doing good.

Pity they couldn’t do better with the design though, but it looks like it could be comfortable to hold.

This is what Scoble has to say about it:

Palm did what Nokia, RIM, and Microsoft couldn’t: build a better experience than Apple: “