Flat UI Toolkit...

Yup, yet another web UI toolkit.  This one is for the trendy new “flat UI” – which looks just like the very first UIs I ever saw on a color screen, way back in the early '80s.  Everything old is new again...

RIP John Karlin – the First UX Guy...

For the non-geeks amongst my readers: “UX” is the currently popular abbreviation for “User Experience”, and denotes an engineer whose focus is on the human factors of a system's user.  UX engineers are most often thought of as part of software development teams, but in fact they're also often part of hardware teams.

John Karlin was arguably the first UX guy, and he was focused on telephone design...