Posts Tagged ‘desktop’

The shape of computers to come

22nd June 2006 2:18pm by Chris N posted in Archived

An article on Slashdot about some graphics-pen based desktop software called ‘BumpTop’ started me thinking again about interface design (see ‘Welcome to Userville’). But then my thinking started to run ‘well I wrote that post about software design, better think of something else’. I had to think outside the box - literally.
Because outside the software-displaying [...]

Desktop Psychology

5th April 2006 10:12am by Chris N posted in Archived

You can tell a lot about a person by sneaking up to their desk when they’re out of the office, rifling through their pockets and messing around on their PC - or, if you’re afforded god-like status by virtue of network permissions and the like (and don’t mind missing out on the pocket-rifling), you can [...]