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A lot of us are fans of tabbed browsing. It's one of the most useful changes in window and document management since the Task Bar on Windows. People who like to work with multiple documents like quick, convenient access to them. It's part of the reason Microsoft moved Office to a SDI model. That said, Firefox is a browser for everybody, and a lot of people don't use a lot of windows. In one of the PDC videos released a month or so back, a Microsoft representative said that they had done studies that showed that users generally had no more than 5 windows open at a time. This surprised them because they, like most of us, were used to browsing with tens of windows. The challenges that face us building the Firefox UI is how to make Tabbed Browsing useful to those who want it, discoverable to those whose lives would be made easier by it, and transparent to those who don't need it.

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"Last week I spoke at Web Essentials '05, an invigorating conference in Sydney, Australia. The folks attending were so engaged and excited"

By exploring alternative interfaces that transcend the principlesbehind conventional graphical interfaces, a human-computer interfaceemerges that is based on language, a richer representationof objects, expert users, and shared control.

Though we might not be seeing the death of the “page” in Web sites just yet, technologies like AJAX do enable Web-based interface designs to incorporate dynamic functionality within smaller, modular UI elements.

Anualmente, Jakob Nielsen publica uma lista dos 10 erros mais comuns existentes na Internet. A lista deste ano acabou de sair.

Macintosh-style interaction design has reached its limits. A new paradigm, called results-oriented UI, might well be the way to empower users in the future.