[german] this project aims at developing audible cognitive components of a web interface (e.g. hearcons)

The use of Visual Metaphors is one of the most common ways of elaborating interfaces and visual representations. However not all the developers think the same way.

Ten questions to ask before you do a newspaper redesign.

The Infomap search engine is a semantic searcha engine with a visually clustered result “map”.

This article (in the SAP Design Guild) may not only sound a little bit “abstract” - it is. On the other hand, I hope that it includes enough examples to make the issue clear: the problem to distinguish between the abstract properties of a user interface design, that is, its conceptual structure or model (we also use terms, such as “logical” or “semantic” for this level), and its physical implementation. In simple words, we can say that there is a clear distinction between the abstract plans we build for an application’s user interface and how the application itself actually looks. But as the first three examples show, we find that the distinction between abstract concepts for something (some thing…) and the properties of its physical realization is not restricted to the application level only.