Jure Cuhalev

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27 Feb, 2011

I <3 Alfred app

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: usability

In my free time, I’m an Apple geek. This means that new OS X users come to me and ask me about essential apps for their shiny new Mac. After explaining to them that there is Microsoft Office for Mac and that they should chat using Adium, I try to sell them on idea of [...]

18 Dec, 2010

OmniGraffle 5 Diagramming Essentials book review

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: Tech|usability

Guys at Packt Publishing were kind enough to send me a copy of their OmniGraffle 5 Diagramming Essentials book by Ruben Olsen to review, as I’ve written about OmniGraffle a couple of times and use it regularly.

While the book claims that it’s intended audience is everyone from novice to a pro. I’ve found it more suitable [...]

04 Dec, 2009

Captcha is such an ugly word

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: Tech|usability

Hat tip to Wikia who gave it a few moments of thought and renamed captcha to blurry word. It still doesn’t tell you why it’s there, but now you can at least find it. Before that, it was just a nonsense term (for someone not in IT/web field).

08 Mar, 2009

The great OK/Cancel button dilemma

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: ideas|usability

Today I created a simple web form. So simple indeed that it has only three design elements:

Image by panavatar via Flickr

input field
OK button, in this case labeled “Save”
Cancel button

Since I’m always confused about the order of OK  - Cancel buttons (you, should it be OK / Cancel or Cancel / OK), I checked a few [...]

26 Feb, 2009

OmniGraffle stencils

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: usability

UX community in Slovenia is slowly waking up, even though this might just mean I had lunch with @mitjamavsar. The discussion evolved around tools for wireframing and prototyping. Since I’m a happy mac user I pitched for OmniGraffle as it had something that’s a killer feature for me – great stencil community.
What’s a stencil? It’s [...]