John Udell explores the workings of Gmail’s UI. I’ve been using Gmail as my primary client for my personal mail, and going through my email is faster with it than using Mail.app (my work mail client at the moment.) Add to wish list: a framework that allows Web developers to easily deploy Gmail-like interfaces.
Whoa. Unfortunately I’ve not been able to test it yet. (There’s a Mac version in the works, right? Right? Hello?…)
Update: An OS X version is in the works.
I was talking with a US colleague a couple of weeks ago about the upcoming election in that country. At one point I said that given the enormous influence the US has over every country in the world today, it would make sense to just give everyone in the world the right to vote for what is, in effect, their de-facto leadership. BetaVote.com takes this concept and gives it tangible form: it allows people from every country to cast a virtual vote in the upcoming election. [Via Chiara Fox.]
Lao Tzu on self-censorship:
He does not show himself; therefore he is luminous.
He does not define himself; therefore he is distinct.
He does not assert himself; therefore he succeeds.
He does not boast of his work; therefore it endures for long.
It is precisely because he does not compete that the world cannot compete with him.
Lou is looking for a global IA widget that will help users select their language and country. The challenge is doing it usably (no dropdowns allowed), and having it be small enough to be unobtrusively embeddable. This is the sort of thing where rich interfaces (Flash, DHTML, Java) can shine, given that we ignore the usability requirement.
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