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PhoneScoop provides a demonstration and photos of the new Samsung TouchWiz finger touch user interface, a 2.0 version of the company's Croix OS.

This one of the first phones to rush to market in order to compete with the iPhone. There doesn't appear to be a multi-touch-type interface for two-finger interactions like zooming, but dragging and dropping appears very similar to the iPhone's drag behavior. One of the fun features is a very configurable home page, which provides user-selectable widgets. Very cute.

TechSmith has published a useful tutorial that shows how to view where people clicked during sessions.

Morae recordings use TechSmith’s Rich Recording Technology (RRT) to capture video, audio, camera input, as well as all sorts of data, including keyboard entry, screen text, web page changes, mouse clicks, and system events. Use Manager’s Search Results pane to help you focus in on this valuable information to support your findings.

This feature is pretty hidden, so Morae users will want to check this out.

Denis Kortunov provides a nice illustrated list of common mistakes in icon design.

1. Insufficient differentiation between icons
2. Too many elements in one icon
3. Unnecessary elements
4. Lack of unity of style within a set of icons
5. Unnecessary perspective and shadows in small icons
6. Overly original metaphors
7. National or social characteristics not being taken into account
8. Images of real interface elements in icons
9. Text inside icons
10. Outside the pixel framework

http://turbomilk.com/truestories/cookbook/criticism/10-mistakes-in-icon-design/