Yesterday I hacked together a quick mockup of the login screen. It has problems in Safari, and I haven’t even tested it in Internet Explorer, but it looks like this in Firefox:

It’s good enough for now; I’ll worry about the nice blue login button and other alignment issues and stuff later on. (This is what I have to keep telling myself so I don’t spend the next two days perfecting it. :))

Incidentally, I’m now reading through some design pattern libraries, and the stuff I’m finding is important enough that I’ll try to read through most of it before continuing with the interface design. Why? Because they give rationales for each design pattern (when and where to use it, when not to, things to be aware of, etc.), which are very, very helpful. And I have a strong suspicion that designing the main interface will be a lot easier after having read through them. We’ll see. I really, really, really like the idea of design patterns, by the way. If only I’d come across this stuff a few years ago… :)

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