Oh, drop downs, you cheeky little things!

Oh, drop downs, you cheeky little things!

Why is it? Form elements are fully customizable using simple CSS styling except <select> drop downs. Oh sure, you can tweak colors, sizes, fonts, etc. but I’m talking about overriding the native controls and really making them your own. Of course, you can use...

Inching Toward Flatland

A series of posts touching on elements of UI and Interaction Design that have come through my feed reader recently are really resonating with me to the point that I need to write about them. I’ve written here in the past about my distaste for skeumorphic...

Make It So: Book & Blog Alert

Nathan Shedroff (from the MBA in Design Strategy program at the California College of the Arts) and Christopher Noessel from the well-known interaction design firm Cooper have recently released a new book analyzing the user interfaces shown in science fiction, as well...

Friday Linked List (06/01/12)

Three cheers and a tiger for me — today is my 15th anniversary with Art & Logic, and in lieu of a party I’ve decided to dump some links that have collected in my pinboard account: First, two different blog posts discussing ideas about user interface...