[ This following is the letter from the editor in the 9/12/05 UIEtips, a free newsletter we send out almost weekly. - Jared]
Greetings,
At User Interface Engineering, we focus a great deal of time researching the most promising design tools and materials available to development teams.
In the past year, it seems like everyone is talking [...]

Usually, we’re not like this. We don’t get too excited about the new technologies that are introduced.
After all, we never really got excited about mobile computing.
Or, ubiquitous technology.
Or, speech technology.
Or, rich media.
Or, tablet computers.
None of these things excited us enough to really pay attention. When clients would come to us and say, “What [...]

People are often surprised at all the different things we research here at UIE. While you’re probably aware that we spend a lot of time studying how people use web sites, you may not realize that we also have been researching how new technologies are affecting how users interact with the Web.
Joshua Porter, UIE’s Director [...]

Few things present a bigger challenge to today’s designers than building a web-based application. The constraints of HTML, the complex requirements of the business, the restrictions of the thin-client model, the demands on the back-end, and the intricacies of the domain all come together making George Clooney’s job in the Perfect Storm look simple and [...]

Today’s UIEtips just came out: Looking Back on 16 Years of Paper Prototyping
The first time I learned about paper prototyping was in April of 1989. I remember it clearly, as if it was just last week. (Ironically, the things I actually did last week are a little hazy — the result of a [...]

A friend who is an excellent artist invited me into her studio a little while ago to see some of the work she’s done. She showed me some amazing stuff, but the work that really caught my attention was a still life that she had repeatedly drawn 34 separate times.
She had traditionally used oils [...]