Bob is unemployed and applies for a job as a janitor at Microsoft. A manager at Human Resources...

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:01:13 +0000

Bob is unemployed and applies for a job as a janitor at Microsoft. A manager at Human Resources interviews him in detail then asks him to wipe a few floors as a test.

“OK,” says the interviewer, “you’re hired. Just give me your e-mail address and I’ll send you the necessary documents.”

Bob says that he doesn’t have a computer, so obviously has no e-mail address. The Microsoft interviewer tells him that without an e-mail address he virtually doesn’t exist, so the company is unable to hire him.

Disappointed and frustrated, Bob leaves the building with only 10 dollars in his pocket. He decides to go to the nearest supermarket and buy 10 pounds of tomatoes. He sells the tomatoes door-to-door and within two hours has doubled his capital. He repeats the process three times and ends up with 160 dollars.

Realising that he can make a living this way, Bob works hard from early morning to late at night. Every day, he doubles or even triples his capital. After a short time, he buys a small van, then a truck, and soon he has an entire fleet for his deliveries.

Within 5 years, Bob has established one of the largest food retail chains in the USA. He decides to think about his future and wants to get a financial plan drawn up for himself and his family. He contacts a financial consultant and they compile a pension plan. At the end of the discussion, the consultant asks Bob for his e-mail address in order to send him the corresponding documents, only to hear that Bob still does not own a computer and has no e-mail address.

“That’s weird,” says the consultant. “You have built up a massive retail empire and you don’t even have an e-mail address. Just imagine what you would have achieved if you’d had a computer.”

Bob thinks for a minute, then says: “I’d be a janitor at Microsoft.”

Top 10 UI Design Resources

Wed, 05 May 2010 16:38:00 +0100

Here’s a list of my top 10 UI resources

1 Web Browser Templates

You need a clean browser screenshot for a design presentation? Look no further: our free photoshop browser templates for your professional screendesign come in 1024x768 pixels and 800x600 pixels size , all kinds of different browser flavours and with a few extras on top.

2 Mac OS X Safari Form Elements

Download our free standard HTML form elements or browser windows for Mac OS X.

3 Designing with Grids

Creating a grid to base your designs on is invaluable for giving structure to the page. Here’s a quick introduction to grids and how you can speed up creating them in Photoshop

4 BBC’s Redesign

A new global visual language for the BBC’s digital services

5 iPad GUI PSD

The PSD was constructed using vectors, so it’s fully editable and scalable. You’ll notice there are a few new UI elements as compared to the iPhone interface. The workable screen design is formatted to 768×1024 so anything you design in the Photoshop file can easily be brought over to the SDK.

6 The Ultimate iPhone GUI PSD

With Apple’s official release of the new iPhone 3.0 came a number of new GUI elements. Some of the changes and additions have been include in this GUI: map and map elements including curl, copy and paste elements; timeline bar editor; and horizontal iPhone and horizontal panel bars and keyboards.

7 Standard Web Banners

You can download these standard Web banners or ads individually (468×60 pixels, 768×60, 125×125, etc.). There are also templates for common but non-standard banner sizes (120×30, 230×33, 728×210, etc.).

8 Wire-frame Icons Royalty Free ESP & PNG

The icon set includes EPS and PNG versions of the original Konigi Wireframe Icon Set and are suitable for use in vector drawing applications such as Adobe Illustrator as well as in Microsoft Visio.

9 A4 and A3 Sketching Grid Paper

This downloadable and printable 960-pixel-wide grid makes it easy to create a three-column (320 pixel), four-column (240 pixel), five-0column (192 pixel) or six-column (160 pixel) grid on a single sheet of paper. You have two sizes to choose from, A4 and A3.

10 iPhone App Wire-Framing Sketching Paper

Two versions are available, one in landscape and the other in portrait. Each version includes three pages: page 1 has a vertical screen and notes column; page 2 has a horizontal screen and notes column; page 3 has a three-screen layout that is great for drafting designs.

Peter Avey

Bob is unemployed and applies for a job as a janitor at Microsoft. A manager at Human Resources...

Top 10 UI Design Resources