According to Automatic’s email list-group, the basic framing, left nav, and other modular elements aren’t up for grabs, but the Settings, Site Admin from MU, and Media Uploader are looking at a UI facelift. Pages like Comments and Plugins in the Admin are also being looked at, but it seems as if the 2.7 redesign will stick with us for a while. There is also an irc channel created at #wordpress-ui on irc.freenode.net.

In the SlideShare below you will see that at slide 55, Jane talks about “More UI/UX Contributors”! If you’re a UI designer who has been using this awesome piece of OpenSource software, here’s your chance to contribute back to the community and to WP by helping out. You don’t need to actually help with the UI design, but you can participate in usability tests, or just lurk and learn in the list or irc.

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Whether you are a light user wanting to transfer your twenty-something kilobyte documents between computers across town, or you run a multi-national business and want to transfer large presentations, video files, and many other things between you and hundreds of co-workers, Dropbox has an account for you. It’s like a jump drive that gets to where you’re going before you do… and also, doesn’t ever take up space on your keychain. Oh, did we mention it has a mobile interface and a dedicated iPhone application? There’s way too much to say about Dropbox. Just go check it out here.

It’s pretty obvious how big of an impact Twitter has had on the world of Social Media, and therefore the entire web, and therefore interface design. Twitter began this year, however, with some experimental things (a la Google); one of these experiments is Twitter Lists. Obviously, because of the immense number of people who tweet daily, you can quickly end up with quite a few folks on your Follow list. How do you keep track of them? Some apps implemented lists before Twitter finally caught on. And, of course, because Twitter now supports lists, they are going to be a lot more functional (and universal) for Twitter users. Check it out here.

Everyone has wasted time on Facebook. If you haven’t, then maybe now is a good time to start. Why, you ask? Well, instead of wasting time pressing the refresh button, you now can waste time stalking your old classmates from ‘95. Or, perhaps you just want to watch the feed, as if it were a tv show. Thanks to Facebook implementing real time updates, you can do that. Thanks for making us more productive at being less productive, Facebook!

Also, don’t forget those wonderful Facebook iPhone applications. Not only are we more productive at wasting time when we’re supposed to be finishing up some spreadsheet or another… we also are able to have Facebook Chat at our fingertips while we drive! But seriously… Facebook really has taken some leaps and bounds in making the world more connected this year by changing the way we see the dynamic abilities of Social Media.

If you haven’t watched Google’s super-long introduction video to Google Wave, you can do so here. That will tell you a lot of the details… but even Google doesn’t tell you everything in that video. The truth of the matter is, Google Wave’s long-anticipated arrival will slowly but (almost) surely become a big player in the game of collaboration and Social Media, as well as blogging, in the future. As it is currently in beta (what else do you expect from Google?), not everyone can use it just yet. Remind you of any other successful social networking stories? (Okay, in case you didn’t know… Facebook was limited to college students until 2005, and only in 2006 was it opened to anyone and everyone.) Get to Waving, folks – there’s a LOT of capability here, and the more people who use it, the more powerful and useful the platform will become.

For those of you who are iPhone users, you know why this is such a big deal. It made the list not because it’s groundbreaking or because it changed any game. No, it just changed hundreds of thousands of users’ experiences. Why is this genius (and, make no mistake, it IS genius)? Well, we can’t promise these things, but it’s quite likely that Apple knew from the beginning just how badly people would want this feature. So customers sit and wait on a “big feature” of iPhone OS 3.0, which, turns out, Apple knew how to do a long time ago. So a brand new selling point of the iPhone comes out of what is, for other phones, just a normal feature. This is just another great example of why Apple easily garners lasting brand loyalty that is built on excitement and buzz. I mean, what iPhone user didn’t get excited when they heard about cut/copy/paste for iPhone? Exactly.

CoTweet is a platform that helps companies reach and engage customers using Twitter. Or so it says on their homepage. And yet, it’s so much more! Do you have multiple Twitter accounts? Or one account that you need multiple people to post to? CoTweet is the tool for you. A gorgeous web-app in the purest sense. You can schedule your tweets to post at a later date, assign DMs to users, automatically repost your tweets to dozens of other social network sites like, Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace, monitor keywords and trends and even click tracking via Bit.ly integration. The list goes on and on! But don’t take our word for it, one look at the features page and you will easily see how this interface makes the list.

Alright, we lay down arms for a minute here to recognize the beauty of the new operating system from Windows. Sure, the editor of FYI (that’d be me) owns and uses two Apple computers, but for Christmas this year, it may just be time to spring for a dual-boot endeavor. Why? Well, there are simply a litany of really cool interface enhancements to make everyday workflow incredibly easier. It’s the little things, folks, and Microsoft has (finally) learned how little things can stack up to be quite huge. (For instance, the “Snap” feature may just make us Mac fanboys a little… territorial. Jealous is a strong word…)

Apple’s Snow Leopard fixes a lot of usability issues that have been around since Leopard (10.5). Stacks works better, Spaces and Exposé… oh, and did we mention the fact that it upgrades the entire operating system and all Apple applications to 64-bit? Just you all wait until CS5 comes out… if it finally supports 64-bit, it is expected that Mac users will see some enjoyable speed increases. The usability of every day processes has been laid out wonderfully by Snow Leopard, both for now and for the future.

There are also a lot of brand new features Apple introduced (for instance, GPU accelerated processing).

This tool can be seen in use on Abduzeedo; basically it allows all of these wonderful social networking tools that work on their own (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) to be integrated together, right on a website, such as Abduzeedo. This tool is simply fantastic for bringing it all together; talk about usability! Not only can you drag photos straight from the page to the sharing tool, but you can also traverse across multiple chat clients (that’s what Meebo does best anyway). This made the top of our list for many reasons. One, it’s extremely powerful and time saving; instead of popping open seven tabs for each and every sharing service, you just drag and drop. It just simply rocks. And we like things (and people) that rock. It’s pretty simple, don’t you think? The only negative points so far is that it’s not available to the public just yet… hearsay says 2010 will bring it to your domains. UPDATE: Thanks to one of the comments below from Meebo for this update – there is now a version of the Meebo sharing bar available! Check it out here: http://bar.meebo.com

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Cheeky Web

This tongue in cheek has made it’s way all over the web, and doesn’t show signs of slowing down. With Twitter, we first saw the “Fail Whale”; another juxtaposition of a fairly odd theme for a 404 page. Also, with Twitter, the entire branding concept is wrapped around a small, cartoon bird. Ten years ago, seemingly, this kind of branding and user experience was limited to cereal boxes. But “Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids” has turned into “silly PC, Macs are for grownups.” Leading social platform Facebook has adopted the tongue-in-cheek concept as well, offering “Pirate” as a language choice, extending support even for the automated emails sent to notify the user of a new wall post or message.

Facebook's Pirate language let's you log-in with your 'Lectric Parrot and Secret Code

Google (long known for their sense of humor, anyway) has even adopted the conversational idea with their latest video push for Chrome OS.

Why does funny work so well?

Well, there’s no proof necessarily as to why the slightly ironic tinge of the latest web-trends appeals to us (maybe the Trix rabbit is the real cause for it all). But one theory suggests that, especially for those in the United States, the economic crisis and the media surrounding it are “heavy,” so to speak; the light-hearted jabs Apple takes at Microsoft are a relief from the weight of the situation at hand.

But hey, nobody really knows why mullets caught on in the eighties, except that the popular guys did it. When it comes down to it, it could be said that a lot of it is simply a stylistic trend that is spearheaded by some guys up top that have a good sense of humor, and know that laughter, even in advertising, is like medicine. And it seems like it’s an addicting pill.

The Bandwagon

Other players in the humor game pop up daily. Just taking a quick glance over at sites like LogoPond will show the toyish-look of branding. Often resembling caricatures, a “hot trend” in logo design is to give the mark some “personality.” This is all a huge part of the user experience.

Source: LogoPond.com

User Experience

The result of the conversational, tongue-in-cheek attitude towards business is a strong brand loyalty, and at least positive recognition of the humor, if it is done well. We’ve all met the Windows user who chuckled at the most recent “promise” ad from Apple. The front end of a person’s experience with a company is extremely important; whether that person becomes a customer or not, the companies implementing this into their advertising and branding understand the importance of perception; even though PC users may never use Apple’s OS, they quite possibly (more probably) will own an iPod, or perhaps an iPhone; by maintaining a humorous stance, Apple doesn’t estrange the opponent’s customers.

Conclusion

We can see quite clearly that the cheeky attitude of companies on and off the web has had a major impact on user experience study as we know it. What have you found to be effective, or anti-effective, about this kind of front-end user experience?

Note: This article talks about advertising and branding quite a bit. This is because advertising is a very significant portion of the user experience, whether the advertising targets new customers or existing customers. Often, advertising and branding are the only communication between a company and its potential, new, or loyal customers.

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Why did we number the post? Because later on, down the road, you might want to come back and take a look at a specific showcased piece. But who wants to wade through hundreds of other links? Just remember the number of the inspiration post, and you’re golden!

Enough talk. Let’s go!

Hirngespinster

Deep Green Sound Design

Fubiz Interactive

Web UI Treasure Chest (free download)

Daniel Kusaka – Online Portfolio

Five Stone

l2m3 Portfolio

Todd Hido

Saturized Site Design Candidate

Cyclone – Interactive Sound Space

Hook Interactive and Commercial Art

Boco Conference Website

Paper Wireframes on Behance

Nosotros

Bubblewood

Notepod – Drafting paper for iPhone apps

Flickr Feed

From User: px42

From User: AthenaKing

From User: Neurowave

That’s it!

So, you want your stuff featured, you’re thinking. Well, there are a lot of ways to make that happen!

• #1: Submit to the Flickr Group
• Email the Editor at editor@fuelyourinterface.com.
• Contact us on Twitter: @fuelinterface

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It’s Contest Time at FYI

Okay ladies and gentlemen, you’re reading right. It’s contest time. And the entry is about as easy as it gets! The prize is two licenses for JustInMind Prototyper, a wireframing tool that can be used to quickly and easily map out your application-based interfaces. There will be TWO winners! JustInMind is full of features that you (being the interface-creating geniuses that you are!) can use to build rich and beautiful, perfectly functional interfaces.

So here’s what you do:

1. Go download a copy to try out.
2. Come back to this post and respond with a comment of how you would use JustInMind, and state your case: why do you need a license for JustInMind? Also, include some kind of reflection on your trial use.
3. We will deliberate. The comments must be posted before 11:59 PM EST next Wednesday.
4. WIN! (or lose… but hey, you can’t win everything…)

And THAT’S IT! Tell your colleagues, Twitter peeps and Facebook friends to come join in for a chance to win!

IMPORTANT:
Remember, keep the subject of the comments about yourself. Or if you’d like to positively vote towards another person, that’s welcomed as well. Nothing along the lines of “Billy Bob shouldn’t win because I think he is a horrible designer.” These kind of negative comments will be removed and will disclude you from the contest.

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ThemeRoller and jQuery UI

Filament Group’s Scott Jehl and Todd Parker will be doing an extensive overview of jQuery UICSS framework and ThemeRoller. These tools are indispensable for many interface designers. jQuery UI makes it incredibly easy to create interactions such as drag-and-drop, widgets such as datepickers, sliders, tabs, and progressbars, or a set of effects (not jQuery’s built in effects) that are custom to interface design, such as Explode, Clip, and Fold. (See the full list).
Oh, and if you’d like to create a theme before committing to the download (which is only 300.3 kb minified) then take a look at ThemeRoller. jQuery UI, like jQuery, is hosted on Google AJAX libraries API.

Fuel will be there

Doug Neiner, editor of FuelYourCoding, will be sitting in the audience soaking up all the information he can. (Which is a lot.) Be sure to check out FuelYourCoding for tips on jQuery and a ton of other coding information.

Twitter links

jQuery Conference Search

John Resig (creator of jQuery)

Filament Group

Scott Jehl

Doug Neiner (FuelYourCoding)

For those of you who are at the conference, let us know what you think! Also, make sure to look for Doug and say hello!

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• Sarah Parmenter

Sarah Parmenter is the founder of You Know Who, a web-design studio in Leigh-on-Sea, UK. You Know Who has been around since 2003, so Sarah has an extensive portfolio in many areas of design. You Know Who also works with iPhone app UI development. Sarah and her team have worked on some really great looking websites and apps. Sarah has multiple points of recognition, and showcases her work on a regular basis on her Flickr. Follow Sarah on Twitter: @sazzy.

• Lisa Moseley

Lisa works with Crush + Lovely, a web creative group who build absolutely cool websites, such as this one, this one, and lots more. Lisa is the interaction designer alongside Jina Bolton at C+L, but she also finds time to work freelance.
Follow Lisa on Twitter: @solairis

• Jina Bolton

The main thing Jina wants you to know is that she likes sushi and robots. Beyond that, Jina is a superstar interface designer, working over at Crush + Lovely alongside Lisa Moseley. Previous to C+L, Jina worked at Apple as a visual interaction designer and front end web developer. Check out her interaction portfolio here! Follow Jina on Twitter: @jina

• Amy Mahon

Amy’s father loved repairing computers. This could explain why Amy was building websites by the time she was in high school, and learning PHP shortly after she graduated, going on to work for Pictures in Motion, a start-up company, then on to blubolt. Amy is an XHTML and CSS wizard. Follow Amy on Twitter: @amerz

• Eva-Lotta Lamm

Eva-Lotta is an Interaction Designer for Skype who has worked for Yahoo and Kahn + Associates, an agency who specializes in information architecture and interface design. Her experience precludes her. Go check out her work! Follow Eva-Lotta on Twitter: @evalottchen

• Kelly Goto

With clients such as Verizon Wireless, Warner Bros. Online, the Blue Cross, Genentech and Wells Fargo, Kelly has made her mark in the industry of interaction design and user experience research. She also has found time to write Web ReDesign 2.0: Workflow that Works. Kelly Goto also is the CEO of gotomedia, where her team of associates have worked with people such as the developers of the MP3 format. Check out the portfolio! Follow Kelly on Twitter: @go2girl

• Marie Poulin

Marie is a freelancer who has gained some awesome experience by working for companies like Thinkhouse Design as their lead web designer and developer. Marie has a great looking portfolio of work she has done in the past for both Thinkhouse and on her own. Make sure you check it out!
Follow Marie on Twitter: @mariepoulin

• Larissa Meek

Larissa Meek has done it all, folks. From her modeling career to her education in 3D modeling, to her finalist position in the Miss USA pageant, to her role in reality TV, Larissa has had a lot of world experience. She now works for AgencyNet, an interactive design company based in Los Angeles. AgencyNet’s long list of clients and amazing flash design make Larissa a perfect fit for our list. Follow Larissa on Twitter: @Larissameek

• Lea Alcantara

Lea Alcantara works for her own Lealea Design, where she has done some incredible work. She has been featured on multiple design websites (check them out in her footer on her site). Follow Lea on Twitter: @lealea

• Megs Fulton

Megs has a really cool portfolio (that’s the first thing we noticed) as well as a great resume. She is also part of the Krop Creative Database. Megs worked for The Brownstein Group, a company who also works for IKEA. We love IKEA. Her clients while working for The Brownstein Group also include Microsoft and Sungard. Follow Megs on Twitter: @megsfulton

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“Refined, not Reinvented”

64-Bit

Hence the simple addition of “Snow” to the title, Snow Leopard isn’t as big of a change as Tiger to Leopard was in the sense that you won’t see a lot of functional changes in the way you perform everyday tasks.
Snow Leopard has been re-worked to make use of 64-bit processing, which essentially allows machines that have room for more than 4GB (roughly) of memory to take advantage of that extra memory more efficiently, more often. In theory, 64-bit processing can use up to 16 exabytes of RAM (16 billion GB). Snow Leopard can also accommodate up to 16 TB (for those of you who are unfamiliar with the term, that’s 16,000 GB) of actual RAM, in practice. Another really important point: All of the built-in applications (Mail, iChat, Finder, etc.) are now 64-bit. Also, all of your 32-bit applications will work with Snow Leopard. The security of 64-bit processing is also increased. Quick note – this is only for Intel Macs. Sorry PowerPC users. Looks like your final destination is 10.5.8.

Other Backend Enhancements

There are a few other back-end enhancements worth noting.

• OpenCL – uses computing power of GPUs to increase performance of other tasks
• GCD – “Grand Central Dispatch” – optimization of multi-core processing.

Both advancements will be based on whether or not each particular user-installed application is created or updated with the capability of utilizing the new technologies.
While these advancements are important to check out, we’ll let you read more in-depth at Apple about those. We’re here to talk about the interface. (note: the back-end of the computer ALWAYS makes a difference to the front end, hence why we mentioned the advancements)

So, what about the UI?

There are some cool enhancements to take note of in the UI overall.

Better Stacks

Perhaps the most important thing to me when using my OS is organization. While searching is already easy with Spotlight, I’d much rather know where something is. Stacks receives a much-needed upgrade with Snow Leopard. Now, you can navigate within folders AND you can have as many icons as necessary with the new addition of a scrollbar. Much better, Apple.

More Features for Finder

Good stuff here. With a new zoom bar at the bottom right of the Finder window, you can look at icons a little closer, a little easier. Also, faster icon refresh rates make Finder that much better. In Leopard, Apple introduced Quick Look, which allowed the user to look at a file easily without really doing much. Now, some of these QuickLook functions can be done inside a finder window icon. Particularly, you can check out a multipage document or preview a QuickTime movie. (It’s just one button less pushing, but hey… we all like to be a bit lazier, right?)

Brand New QuickTime

Apple introduces QuickTimeX with Snow Leopard. A couple of expected enhancements to QuickTime are also packaged with Snow Leopard, and a couple of not-so-expected enhancements have found their way there as well. Tip: QuickTime is also used across the entire OS, so an upgrade will more than likely bring along newer technology/plugins/enhancements within Safari and other programs that use QuickTime to display media.

Features

1. Audio/Video Recording and Simple Editing

Previously available to QuickTime Pro owners, you may now use your audio/video input to record in QuickTime. Equally exciting for anyone who does screencasts, you may also now use QuickTime to record screen activity. There is also simple video editing, ala the iPhone 3GS.

2. Slick Interface Enhancements

Cool little feature – when you roll your mouse out of the QuickTime window, the interface fades out so that you can focus on the video playing.

3. More Featured Video Export

Okay, not necessarily an interface enhancement, but nonetheless fairly important. You can now export directly to specified formats for iPod, iPhone, or AppleTV. Also, directly upload to YouTube or MobileMe accounts without wading through which codec is best for which service.

4. Takes Full Advantage of New Features in Snow Leopard

The features we mentioned earlier – Grand Central Dispatch and OpenCL – are utilized in the display performance to help smooth out playback, especially of higher-quality video, which previously was apt to stutter.

Anything you don’t like?

Okay, okay… I admit, I am a Mac user/fan. I’m not one of those nutcases that burns PCs on the weekends as a recreational activity, nor as a psychological release… That’s my neighbor. But seriously, with everything good, there almost ALWAYS is something bad. In this case, it is a few of Apple’s newest Exposé tweaks. One cool part about the tweaks is that you can click and hold on any application in the dock to show the Exposé-ized windows of that application. Very intuitive. However, Exposé now shows all windows at much closer to the same dimension. Check it out.


Notice how the windows in Exposé are a little more proportional in the older interface. Sure, the grid-based interface idea is probably “better” – but sometimes, the chaos of Exposé is part of what made it easy to use (in my personal opinion). I know about how big my open windows are, even while shuffled. Knowing the size of the windows is a much faster determining factor when choosing which window to switch to, rather than having to read each and every label for the windows. Maybe there will be a tweak later, but for now, that’s one point for the anti-upgraders.

One more important feature…

Again, not so much aesthetic interface, but rather on a larger scale, Snow Leopard enables Microsoft Exchange compatibility with its included (native) applications, including Mail, iCal, and Address Book. This allows for a much more integrated experience for users who take their Mac to a Windows-based workplace every day, as well as users with iPhones who have taken full advantage of Google Calendar and Google Contacts by utilizing Exchange for calendar and contact synchronization (read how to do this here).

Final Verdict

Well, this one isn’t too tough to figure out folks. Minus the obvious facts (this isn’t for PC users, and only works on Intel Macs), this well-planned upgrade from Apple is easily worth $29. A good reference point is a QuickTime Pro purchase, which was $30… With Snow Leopard, you get the functionality of QuickTime Pro, plus a good number of other interface features (even more than what are listed here). On top of it, you get an extra dollar for Taco Bell. And you are kept up-to-date so that if your favorite software developer decides to take advantage of Apple’s new 64-bit, OpenCL, or GCD technology, you are ready to get the most out of their newest software. Not to mention the added security, speed, and Exchange support… It’s a no brainer.

Drop the $29, either now or later when your parents have had it for long enough to bug you about how to use Photo Booth.

Family pack upgrade, for 5 users who are currently using Leopard, is $44 on Amazon, while the single user upgrade is $29 straight from Apple. If you are using Tiger, you must buy the Mac Box Set, which is actually a very well priced deal itself at $169. It includes iWork 09 and iLife 09, as well as an install of Snow Leopard from Tiger, for $169. Check it out here.

Hopefully this has been somewhat educational, and will help you make your decision on whether to upgrade to Snow Leopard!

Note: Fuel is in no way affiliated with Apple Inc. All Apple logos and/or trademarks are property of Apple Inc. Fuel was not compensated for this review.

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Years of research, hundreds of thousands of dollars (okay, maybe not hundreds of thousands… but a few bucks…) and countless sleepless hours (like we’d be asleep anyway) have been spent just to find out that the most essential ingredient to Fuel is…

Drumroll…

YOU!

That’s right. You are what makes Fuel exactly what it is. Each of you make up a vital part of the purpose and drive behind what Fuel does. If it weren’t for you, there wouldn’t be an “us”!
This is exactly why we are opening our arms to you and inviting you to share. Whether you contribute an article, post something in the user submitted links, or add to our Flickr group, there is always a way for you to get involved at Fuel! There will be more ways for you to get involved in the future as well, so stay tuned!

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An Event Apart is a two-day conference put on by Eric Meyer and Jeffrey Zeldman, founder of Happy Cog. They are joined by guest speakers (listed below) who have gained expertise in each of their areas. An Event Apart is from the makers of A List Apart, which is known for its knowledgeable contributors. If you are into web interface design, make sure you check out An Event Apart!

Info for Chicago, October 12-13

Guests:

Jason Santa Maria, web designer
Kristina Halvorson, founder and president of BrainTraffic
Dan Brown, author of Communicating Design
Whitney Hess, strategic partner to Happy Cog
Andy Clarke, author of Transcending CSS
Brett Welch, co-founder of GoodBarry
Aaron Gustafson, co-author of AdvancED DOM Scripting
Simon Willison, developer at Guardian News and Media
Luke Wroblewski, author of Web Form Design
Dan Rubin, co-author of Web Standards Creativity
Dan Cederholm, author of Handcrafted CSS

Info for San Francisco, December 7-8

Guests:

Jarred Spool, founder of User Interface Engineering
Andy Budd, UX Lead of Clearleft
Dave Shea creator of CSS Zen Garden
George Oates, writer and content strategist
Michal Migursky, technology head at Stamen
Ethan Marcotte, head designer at Airbag Industries
Jeffrey Veen, author of Art & Science of Web Design
Jonathan Snook, web expert
Sarah Nelson, design strategist for Adaptive Path

Get your tickets quick! Just head over to the home page of An Event Apart to learn more!

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