Wow, I'm so proud that we've been selected as one of the top 10 Application UIs by the esteemed Nielson Norman Group in their latest report.

I haven't read the report yet, but we got a good writeup in the Alertbox article:

But Xero might be a more interesting example, simply because it targets the traditionally dry domain of accounting. One of its main features lets users automatically reconcile bookkeeping entries with bank account transactions. As a match is made, the 2 matching entries are removed from the list of stuff to be reconciled. Users compared this interaction to playing Tetris and described it as fun and addictive. Come on, making accounting fun? That's an award-winning design.

I'm not responsible for our look, or even for implementing it in code, but I'm very proud to do the behind-the-scenes work on Xero helping to wire it together. It's great that our application is being recognised as having a great user interface... well done to our design team for corralling everyone's ideas together into something that is fun for our users.

Kirk