"APIConnect is a Javascript class that provides a simple way to interact with APIs, specifically those hosted on other domains. Setup is as simple as creating the instance, specifying the domain, connecting the route, and running it. APIConnect works in all major browsers with jQuery as its only dependency, and is now available on npm!"

One handed keyboard

I liked the bit in the beginning especially, in talking about what makes good tools.

RT @andybudd: 101 things I learned at interaction design school - (I thought of doing this myself...nice to see)

"an online tool that makes it easy for you to create, link together, preview, and share mockups of your website or application."

""Last month when I was at the annual Medinge summer meeting, I talked to Patrick Harris about technology use. He told me how his 17yr old daughter refers to the whole category of internet-enabled music, video, info or text devices we now use with just one word: "Screens." Somehow this remark has stuck with me. This is not just a teenagers indifferent throw away description of the different hight-tech devices we surround ourselves with. It's a succinct description of what these devices give us, a window on our information.""

Nice mobile web Twitter client. Oh, and open source (PHP)

"Working with electrostatics, a team of students at Northeastern University in Boston have done just that. For their senior design capstone project, they assembled a gestural interface which allows 3D control just by waving a hand in front of a computer."

"cookie-sized computers with motion sensing, neighbor detection, graphical display, and wireless communication. They act in concert to form a single interface: users physically manipulate them - piling, grouping, sorting - to interact with digital information and media. Siftables provides a new platform on which to implement tangible, visual and mobile applications."

"a presentation given by Matt Webb (of Schulze & Webb) to an audience of BBC designers, on 8 February 2006, as part of their annual Digital Futures 1-day conference. It’s the latest version of a Mind Hacks talk, relating material from the book to user interfaces, which I’ve given a number of times since the beginning of 2006."

excellent, efficient interface for browsing netflix "watch now" offerings

"Your program — How users see it"

"This illustration by Damien Lopez (to whom all links seem to be broken) puts over 30 years of video game controllers on a single page. Looking at them, I find it more interesting to ask questions than to try to answer them. So, for your consideration: -Does this show how far we've come, or how controls have pretty much stayed the same? "

"The two most important factors that influences how much we remember liking an experience are (1) it’s largest extreme and (2) how it ends. It’s called the peak-end algorithm. It’s why if a concert gets off to a rocky twenty-minute start but ends strong you’ll leave happy, whereas if it starts strong but has a bad final ten minutes you’ll leave disappointed."

"Create software mockups in minutes, Collaborate with your team, Focus on creating your product" Ben likes this, have to look at this sometime

"This lovely short film presents an original scenario for a future interface to virtual world making. Like the famous Apple Navigator film from decades ago, or ATT's You Will series of ads, or the Minority Report's scene of transparent gesture interface, this fictional depiction is convincing and inspiring. I want one now. "

"This image is 100 meters long. There are 178 people in the picture, all shot in the course of 20 days from the same spot on a railroad bridge on Warschauer Strasse in Berlin in the summer of 2007."

"a well-built design pattern library makes the user interface development process substantially easier. A quality library means team members have the information they need at their fingertips. Choosing usable components that work smoothly for users becomes the developer's path of least resistance. Innovation, while not prohibited, is reserved for those times when it's really necessary, allowing the team to leverage the work already done by others."

imagining a future transparent device that demonstrates context-aware applications

"the essential distinction between context-aware applications and location-based services (LBS): Everyone gets LBS, more or less: it’s the ground on which Interaction Design Cliché No. 2 is built. You’re in a particular place, and there are things your device can do in this place that it’s not capable of elsewhere." "what I, at least, mean when I use the words “context aware”: but for some residual core of basic functionality, the device’s capabilities and available interface modalities at any given moment are largely if not entirely determined by the other networked objects around it. If you pair the device with a text, it’s a reader; at the checkstand, it provides a friendly POS interface; aimed at the skyline, it augments reality. "

explores the reciprocal relationship between science and design in the contemporary world by bringing together design objects and concepts that marry the most advanced scientific research with attentive consideration of human limitations, habits, and aspi

People who design products are experts cursed by their knowledge, and they can’t imagine what it’s like to be as ignorant as the rest of us.

Use our fully interactive online virtual handsets to test-drive mobile devices, applications, content and services, as well as watch demos - right from the comfort and convenience of your own computer.

convert a Wii remote into a multi-point infrared reader, with a few infrared sensors, you can turn any flat surface (Plasma TV, LCD, Projector Screens and even a coffee table) into a smart board!

30 important usability issues, terms, rules and principles which are usually forgotten, ignored or misunderstood

excellent comments too

create nice-looking userbar within five minutes and without any technical or artistical knowledge.

virtual reality added to real imagery, imagine a camcorder where as you look through the viewfinder, you see some computer generated 3D objects drawn on top of the video picture.

Bothered by KDE apps appearance in a Gnome enviro? Here's how to fix that...

interface for Google Earth using the Wiimote.

bringing external data into virtual environments like Second Life

"The authors suggest that a user's ability to detect a product's actual ease-of-use is quite limited, and familiarity is ultimately in control of cognitive lock-in."

a project dedicated to the Wiimote and Flash® applications

Wild 3D underwater in a browser. (flash)

Experiments using the Nintendo Wii as a wireless 3D interface device. The Wii is a (wireless) Bluetooth device and as such one can readily create applications that access the Bluetooth data and respond accordingly.

interesting approach to computer/human interaction

like Minority Report

check out the geolocator app!

Comparing label placement on forms. On top not bold is best by far.

Eyetracking visualizations show that users often read Web pages in an F-shaped pattern: two horizontal stripes followed by a vertical stripe.

A Lighter Interface to Amazon.com