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Kinect BeatWheel - YouTube
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
Online card sorting | OptimalSort
"OptimalSort is the easy way to organize, run and analyze a card sort online"
ui  hci  web  software 
june 2011 by soypunk
Welcome to CogTool | CogTool
"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
BillaBoop
"BillaBoop is a real-time audio driven drum controller which allows the user to control up to 3 drum instruments. The user can control any drum synth with the voice (beat box), or any object or musical instrument"
hci  audio  music  software 
april 2009 by soypunk
A computer revolution through a child's eyes | Underexposed - CNET News
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
"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
QuirksBlog: iPhone events
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
"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
“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
" 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
Shneiderman's Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design
To improve the usability of an application it is important to have a well designed interface. Shneiderman's "Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design" are a guide to good interaction design
usability  design  ui  hci 
july 2008 by soypunk
Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC)
"IHMC is a not-for-profit research institute of the Florida University System and is affiliated with several Florida universities."
research  hci  florida 
june 2008 by soypunk
analyzing icon design from the point of view of the eye
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.
"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
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
The CogTool Project
"Tools for Cognitive Performance Modeling for Interactive Devices"
design  hci  software  testing 
june 2007 by soypunk
Multimodal Functional Unification Grammar
A natural language user interface generation development environment for multimodal applications
gui  ui  hci  linguistics 
april 2007 by soypunk
Fitts’s Law Demostration
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)
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
BumpTop Prototype - HoneyBrown.ca
First 3d desktop demo I've seen that makes sense.
desktop  design  hci  ui  3d  demo  video 
june 2006 by soypunk
Quicksilver: Constellation documentation
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
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
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
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
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?
"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
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
"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
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
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
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
Lots of interesting UI insights into Chandler and other applications.
hci  ui  blog 
august 2005 by soypunk
LukeW: Web Application Form Design
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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