#user-interface

#user-interface

The KB7 is the flagship, a tenkeyless board with a 4.3-inch Command Touch Display built into it. Think of it as a Stream Deck fused onto your keyboard, letting you swap profiles, trigger macros, manage audio, or push OBS scene changes with a tap.

Google has started rolling out a small but significant update to Chrome on desktop, allowing users to organize their tabs vertically. This feature can be accessed by right-clicking on any Chrome window and selecting 'Show Tabs Vertically.'

This feature has been developed to give our users maximum real estate for control, without losing the controls they would like to have available. It works in both full screen and restored/normal window.

Most consumer drones look and feel intimidating to a child. They're loud, angular, full of exposed propellers, and packed with complex controls adults barely understand. Kids want to see the world from above, but parents see spinning blades and fragile arms that cost too much to replace. The mix of fascination and fear turns what could be fun into something closer to borrowing a grown-up's expensive, breakable toy.

There's a particular kind of guilt that visits me when I open my feed reader after a few days away. It's not the guilt of having done something wrong, exactly. It's more like the feeling of walking into a room where people have been waiting for you, except when you look around, the room is empty. There's no one there. There never was.

Amazon Fire TV has been a bit long in the tooth for a while now. Its design isn't as intuitive to navigate as Google TV, Roku, or Apple TV, and its responsiveness is frustrating. I've found it to be the weak link in Amazon's portfolio for a while now, and the only major drawback to otherwise excellent TVs like the Panasonic Z95B.

Apple just lost a top design talent. Meta has hired Alan Dye, who was the head of Apple's human interface design team. The company is filling his position with Stephen Lemay, who CEO Tim Cook told Bloomberg "has played a key role in the design of every major Apple interface since 1999." Before being poached by Meta to become its chief design officer, Dye worked at Apple since 2006, where he oversaw projects including Liquid Glass and Vision Pro.

Maybe there's an extension to that dream where you sell it for millions, or where you build a company that allows you to retire. But the core of the dream is this: you have a thing that you think needs to be built, you build it, and then people come and give you money for it because they actually need it.

Speaking to Mashable in a video interview, Bond addressed rumors that the next Xbox will function similarly to a gaming PC, saying that "the next-gen console is gonna be a very premium, very high-end curated experience." Bond added that with the recently released handheld ROG Xbox Ally, we're "starting to see some of the thinking that [the Xbox team has], but I don't want to give it all away."

For just $24, you can get a Roku Streaming Stick Plus to upgrade your television to the Roku smart TV platform, widely recognized as one of the most user-friendly interfaces available. This is a deal I'd jump on without a second thought if I didn't already have one of these devices at home. This Roku was released just this year, and it's one of the best streaming sticks I've ever used.

On Thursday, OpenAI announced that ChatGPT users can now branch conversations into multiple parallel threads, serving as a useful reminder that AI chatbots aren't people with fixed viewpoints but rather malleable tools you can rewind and redirect. The company released the feature for all logged-in web users following years of user requests for the capability. The feature works by letting users hover over any message in a ChatGPT conversation, click "More actions," and select "Branch in new chat."

Design systems serve as the comprehensive rulebook for user interface design, providing a shared language, reusable components, and clear guidelines for efficient collaboration.

CEO Sam Altman describes GPT-5 as a significant advancement over previous models, akin to the first iPhone with a Retina display, emphasizing its intelligence.

Firefox Focus is a mobile-only browser that aims to be a simple and private web browser. It delivers on that promise, effectively focusing on privacy.

The new beta also updates the icons for external drives, network shares, and removable disk images, replacing the previous HDD icons with new SSD-esque designs.

The app was orange on black, which was kind of dog-themed, I guess. I didn't like the way the date picker worked, so I told it to fix it.