Kinect BeatWheel - YouTube
november 2011 by soypunk
Aweesome! Also, no surprise but a demonstration that radial menus are useful with other input devices (in this case full body motion input benefits greatly from muscle memory.)
kinect
music
software
research
ui
hci
for-oris
november 2011 by soypunk
Welcome to CogTool | CogTool
august 2009 by soypunk
"CogTool is a general purpose UI prototyping tool with a difference - it automatically evaluates your design with a predictive human performance model (a "cognitive crash dummy")."
hci
usability
software
windows
osx
august 2009 by soypunk
A computer revolution through a child's eyes | Underexposed - CNET News
january 2009 by soypunk
Like the author's kid, my 2.5 son has figured out how to use much of the core iPhoto UI. He's particularly fond of the Photos app as well.
iphoto
ui
hci
children
january 2009 by soypunk
SUPPLE: Automatic Generation of Personalizable User Interfaces
december 2008 by soypunk
"A dierent approach is needed. We believe that automatically generated user interfaces, which are adapted to a person's devices, tasks, preferences, and abilities, can improve people's satisfaction and performance compared to traditional manually designed "one size ts all" interfaces."
hci
ui
research
december 2008 by soypunk
Hurricane Tracker - - MSNBC.com
august 2008 by soypunk
Well that's just bad ass.
weather
mapping
ui
design
hci
august 2008 by soypunk
QuirksBlog: iPhone events
august 2008 by soypunk
Brilliant insights into how traditional JavaScript events apply to the iPhone and MobileSafari.
web
ui
javascript
iphone
webkit
safari
mobilesafari
hci
august 2008 by soypunk
10 Futuristic User Interfaces | Monday Inspiration | Smashing Magazine
august 2008 by soypunk
"10 recent developments in the field of user experience design." The Motorola Sparrow screams vaporware "concept car" crap.
ui
hci
august 2008 by soypunk
Making Visible the Invisible
august 2008 by soypunk
“Making Visible the Invisible” is a commission for the Seattle Central Library. The installation consists of 6 large LCD screens located on a glass wall horizontally behind the librarians’ main information desk. The screens feature real-time calculated animation visualizations generated by custom designed statistical and algorithmic software using data received each hour.
seattle
visualization
hci
august 2008 by soypunk
Home - Pencil Project
july 2008 by soypunk
" The Pencil Project's unique mission is to build a free and opensource tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use." It is a Firefox 3 extension
prototyping
ui
hci
design
firefox
extension
plugin
july 2008 by soypunk
Dan Saffer's Interaction Design Library - Stuff for Interaction Designers to Read
december 2007 by soypunk
Have read some of these, not all though
shawn
to:read
hci
december 2007 by soypunk
Songza - The music search engine & internet jukebox. Listen. Now.
november 2007 by soypunk
interesting use of radial menus
music
web
ui
design
hci
november 2007 by soypunk
analyzing icon design from the point of view of the eye
november 2007 by soypunk
using signal perception to help figure out how to make things easier to find
via:britta
hci
icon
psychology
november 2007 by soypunk
MacKenzie, I. S. (1989). A note on the information-theoretic basis for Fitts' law. Journal of Motor Behavior, 21, 323-330.
october 2007 by soypunk
"It is the purpose of this note to suggest that Fitts' model contains an unnecessary deviation from Shannon's Theorem 17 and that a model based on an exact adaptation provides a better fit with empirical data"
hci
ui
gui
october 2007 by soypunk
OmniGraffle Wireframe Palette | urlgreyhot
june 2007 by soypunk
Recently updated wireframing stencil... in fact other than the ones shipping with OmniGraffle this may be the longest maintained OmniGraffle stencil out there.
omnigraffle
gui
ia
hci
design
prototyping
june 2007 by soypunk
Multimodal Functional Unification Grammar
april 2007 by soypunk
A natural language user interface generation development environment for multimodal applications
gui
ui
hci
linguistics
april 2007 by soypunk
Fitts’s Law Demostration
february 2007 by soypunk
Flash based demo that helps explain Fitt's Law to the average person. Keep it handy to pass to interested parties in your office.
hci
ui
reference
design
february 2007 by soypunk
The Nokia N800 review (from a Newton users and developer)
january 2007 by soypunk
Sean compares the Newton OS to the N800 OS. There are some really genius UI touches in the Newton and this review captures that.
newton
mobile
hci
ui
usability
january 2007 by soypunk
Quicksilver: Constellation documentation
january 2006 by soypunk
Includes a link to the research paper written by the QS developers for CMU. Discusses some of the key issues of radial (pie) menus.
ui
hci
usability
research
mac
osx
software
quicksilver
january 2006 by soypunk
Confusability: Ajax is a Flash in the pan
december 2005 by soypunk
Poorly coded Ajax is no better than Flash and apparently MS went out to lunch during the rash of "please don't be stupid with AJAX" articles. Breaking the core functionality of the back button is, to quote Buffy, all kinds of scary bad.
ajax
web
usability
microsoft
flash
ui
hci
site_du
december 2005 by soypunk
Galleries: The Hardest Working Page on Your Site
december 2005 by soypunk
The article title is clear enough but it discussing product galleries and what info needs to be at the top level for your company to make a sale. Focuses primiarly on a few bad examples as "what not to do".
web
page
design
usability
ui
hci
site_du
december 2005 by soypunk
Betalogue - Mac OS X Address Book: Problems with Edit mode
november 2005 by soypunk
Pierre Igot reviews the 10.4 Address Book interface. I don't think Apple's winning any gold stars on this one.
software
hci
isability
ui
site_du
osx
mac
via:gruber
november 2005 by soypunk
OK/Cancel - Putting Perfect Participants in Every Session
november 2005 by soypunk
A look at recruting people for usability testing and field research. The strongest recommendation is to avoid chosing people based on demographics.
hci
testing
usability
research
site_du
november 2005 by soypunk
USATODAY.com - Why are tech gizmos so hard to figure out?
november 2005 by soypunk
"Simpler-to-operate products tend to sell better, and a company can spend less on tech support."
design
hci
ui
usability
site_du
november 2005 by soypunk
Jensen Harris: An Office User Interface Blog : Be Willing To Be Wrong
october 2005 by soypunk
Summarized results of eye-tracking studies on the new tooolbar interface in MS Office. Quote: "There's just no substitute for watching real people try to get work done in your product."
microsoft
software
office
design
hci
ui
site_du
october 2005 by soypunk
Better Desktop
october 2005 by soypunk
"Better Desktop is a project dedicated to sharing usability data with Linux developers." Being run by Novell.
novell
usability
hci
ui
design
reference
october 2005 by soypunk
AskTog: Keyboard vs. Mouse
october 2005 by soypunk
Interesting article, though dated, and the feedback is equally worth reading.
tog
ui
hci
design
keyboard
mouse
mac
october 2005 by soypunk
ThinkMac Blog - Bad UI in OS X - Spotlight
august 2005 by soypunk
Apple must have thought making Spotlight work like a website/browser would be more natural for searching. Time will tell. The biggest problem I have is how it finds stuff while you type. Annoying.
spotlight
ui
hci
osx
mac
august 2005 by soypunk
#1088 (Volume icons in General tab of Preferences should be active) - Adium X - Trac
august 2005 by soypunk
Adium has always been one step away from perfect on just about any feature. Developers like this one who pay attention to the smallest of details will help out a lot.
adium
usability
hci
osx
august 2005 by soypunk
Journal of Mimi Yin
august 2005 by soypunk
Lots of interesting UI insights into Chandler and other applications.
hci
ui
blog
august 2005 by soypunk
LukeW: Web Application Form Design
february 2005 by soypunk
Comparison of the basic methods of laying out forms on the web. Clear explanations to the advantages and drawbacks.
web
design
forms
usability
hci
ui
site_du
for_ldc_graff
february 2005 by soypunk
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