Plutinosoft, the creator of iPhone Screen Splitter - released an amazing demo tool for the iPhone - DemoGod.
DemoGod allows you to share your real iPhone screen on your computer screen / projector. And it is wireless.
See a demo (switch to full screen to see Veodia's high quality playback)
Very impressive!
No more face UI demos - DemoGod this is the real thing.
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Interesting user experience concept from MIT - Siftables.
Presented by David Merrill.
I like it as it makes the 'out of the box' phrase real.
In this case - instead of a 'box'/screen it provides multiple display and interactive objects. This truly it breaks down the current interaction concepts by making the screen part of the interaction and not just the canvas.
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Siftables:
Imagine overturning a container of nuts and bolts, then looking through the resulting pile for a particular item. Or spreading photographs out on a tabletop and then beginning to sort them into piles. During these activities we interact with large numbers of small objects at the same time, and they utilize all of our fingers and both hands together. We humans are skilled at using our hands in these ways, and can effortlessly sift and sort - focusing on our higher level goals rather than the items themselves.Siftables aims to enable people to interact with information and media in physical, natural ways that approach interactions with physical objects in our everyday lives. As an interaction platform, Siftables applies technology and methodology from wireless sensor networks to tangible user interfaces. Siftables are independent, compact devices with sensing, graphical display, and wireless communication capabilities. They can be physically manipulated as a group to interact with digital information and media. Siftables can be used to implement any number of gestural interaction languages and HCI applications.
The Siftables interaction platform is a collaboration with Jeevan Kalanithi.
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As I opened my favorite Web Radio I've noticed that they have updated the web UI to match the iPhone UI.
Main changes seems to be a tile view of station and album images, instead of the text list we saw before and a framing some lists and menus.
I like.
Often, you are requested to present 'Data' to support your recommendations.
This is true from product marketing, product definition, design and many other aspects or our business.
The devil is in the details, or in the way you display the data...
Check out Dan Saffers presentation - "How to Lie with Design Research"
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I was trying out the new Google Tasks from the labs.
Simple and useful gadget.
In case you added it and cannot find it (like me...), look at the left navigation area:
Also, what with the Actions and the List menus?
It seems as the list actions and tasks settings should be unified and the 'Tasks' settings should have a separated access point.
Anyway, nice to have this at last.
Now I could keep a better track of all the things I will not do...
(It is like your Netflix queue, you never see any movie in place 5 or higher...)
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A little out dated, but interesting nevertheless.
Here is the video of the Web Usability Event on June 25 featuring Tom Chi, Senior Director - User Experience, Yahoo!, Jeremy Ashley, Vice President, Applications User Experience, Oracle, and David Nelson, Sr. Experience Designer, Adobe Systems.
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Boxes and Arrows is devoted to the practice, innovation, and discussion of design; including graphic design, interaction design, information architecture and the design of business. Since 2001, it’s been a peer-written journal promoting contributors who want to provoke thinking, push limits, and teach a few things along the way.
They have great (practical) articles and examples for design processes, prototyping methodologies and much more.
For example:
An interesting post in engadget.
Minority Report-style interface / interaction.
Cool for sure, but not so efficient...
As many, I also think that the best UI is no UI.
If we can remove unnecessary steps, no visual, flow or processes are needed or should be visible to the user.
This interesting prototype demonstrate many steps to reproduce existing user experience activities.
However, braking away from the 'traditional' input devices, such as keyboard and mouse, is happening.
This demo reminded me the BCI (Brain Controlled Interface) concept. But unlike BCI, the interaction flow include much more physical activities.
We are using voice interfaces all the time. Some time they are annoying (especially when you try to get service from a human...), and some time very useful (such as Yahoo! OneSearch, Say Who and Google mobile search application [UPDATE]).
Change is coming.
Let's work to make it change for the better.
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Have a look at this interesting concept.
"...Aurora is a concept video presenting one possible future user experience for the Web, created by Adaptive Path as part of the Mozilla Labs concept browser series. Aurora explores new ways people could interact with the Web in the future based on projected technological trends and real-world scenarios..."
