Writing your own interface for Quicksilver is surprisingly easy, especially if you have experience in Cocoa and Xcode. Having covered the basics about the QSPlugin key in the Info.plist, as well the as the fundamentals of writing Quicksilver actions using Xcode, we are ready to start in a completely new direction. The Quicksilver interface.

I generally tend to distance myself from debatable issues, but I couldn’t bear to see the Apple Human Interface Guidelines take such a battering. The phrase “HIG is dead” must have been repeated at least a few dozen times in various places.

I’m sorry, but the HIG aren’t dead (Note the plural, please. It’s ‘Guidelines’). Quite the contrary; guidelines are needed now more than ever if the Macintosh is to remain the great example of usability it was.