10 Best Application UIs of 2008

[email protected] (Jakob Nielsen) Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:50:00 -0700

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Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox for August 12 is now online at:
  > http://www.useit.com/alertbox/application-design.html

Summary:
Many winners employ dashboards to give users a single overview of complex
information and use lightboxes to ensure that users notice dialogs.
Also, the Office 2007 ribbon showed surprisingly strong early adoption.

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