Archive for June, 2009


My First Podcast!

Listen as my sexy voice guides you through the wonderful world of UI design theory and reviews a stunning review of a UI. There are legitimate spoilers in this bitch, which I’ll post after everything else. Click on this thing below to hear the podcast, and you can read the companion literature by clicking on [...]

Clean 2: Too Clean?

This is the second post about my current UI. In the last post, I went through some justifications for my unit frames, which I think are easily the most important visual element of any UI. I’ve added a few elements to this screenshot which I will discuss.

Minimalism Isn’t Just an Aesthetic

Minimalism seems to be a term that is widely used, and not particularly well understood. I once wrote a post on minimalism, which I haven’t read in several years. This is my elaboration, response, and development of those ideas. It’s immanently theoretical, but useful as a way of documenting my thought process.
Minimalism Doesn’t Mean Miniature [...]

UI Fail of the Week: OMFG WILD GROWTH IS READY

My these are boring. I need to find something more interesting to post.
After being sick for the majority of the week, I’m back with a lot of pent-up sickness rage. This week’s  WoW.com UI fail comes from a healer, but more on that in a second. I’ll just go ahead and link the post, just [...]

UI Fail of the Week: Metzerott

So, I hate WoW.com – I hate it so much. It’s so up its own ass with mediocrity that I can’t stand it. It’s like it takes good quality information and rings out the substance until the only thing they have left is the warm milk at the bottom of a cereal bowl. Anyway, I [...]

Good UI

This is Led++’s new UI – it’s fantastic.
http://img4.abload.de/img/wowscrnshot_061409_220axzc.jpg
I’ll write something about it later (hopefully after talking to Led).
From Led++’s post on EJ.
P.S. Don’t sign your posts on EJ

Clean.

Apparently I’m too negative; who knew. There has been some rumbling in the world at large that I don’t provide an adequate number of UIs I think are “good”; instead of linking the newest Duke UI, I thought I’d post what I’ve been using for about a year now. I’ve made some minor modifications but [...]

They’re All Terrible!

By some unfathomable series of events, WoWInsider has become the center of an increasingly boring and self-ingratiating Warcraft-based blogging community. Honestly, I don’t count this site as much of a blog in the traditional sense, because I don’t report  news. It’s a catalogue of my genius, laid out in stunning prose. WoWInsider has this feature [...]