Multitouch with just a webcam. ‘Touchless’ – an open source project from Microsoft
Touchless is an open source demo and SDK from Microsoft. It was released in October – and it looks so much fun!
User Experience
My Presentation on Out of Box Experience Design
Out of Box Experience (OOBE) design is a discipline that consists of designing the details of the first few moments of owning a product, from the point of peeling off the shrink-wrap to the point of powering it up and … Continue reading
Sign-up & Ramp-up design patterns from Adaptive Path
Adaptive Path have put together a nice free whitepaper on Sign-up & Ramp up design patterns. I think it’s by Alexa Andrzejewski, one of their interaction designers. One notable thing missing is the Lazy Registration design pattern, but hey, that’s … Continue reading
Windows 7 multitouch demo video
If you haven’t seen this clip already, here it is. There’s some smart comments on slashdot, in amongst the noise. Video: Multi-Touch in Windows 7
Count the passes (the inattentional blindness phenomenon)
I don’t normally link to items from Etre’s Reaction blog , because I’m assuming that it’s probably already in your feed reader. If not, you’d do well to add it. Their posts are fun, visual and frequent, which is rare … Continue reading
The Story of the Microsoft Office Ribbon by Jensen Harris
This is a great presentation by Jensen Harris, talking through the history of the MS Office UI and the design approach that brought about the ribbon. Contains nice shots of the early prototypes from slide 60 onwards. | View | … Continue reading
Hey, can I borrow you multimedia computer to make a quick call?
According to this Article by Darren Waters, Nokia have started calling their devices “multimedia computers”. This makes me laugh – can you actually imagine any normal person ever using that term? “Hey, can I borrow you multimedia computer to make … Continue reading
Wary of giving your password to yet another site? – OAuth to the rescue
Woah there! You’ve found yourself on an old article. Take note of the date before reading. I’ve just been doing a spot of reading about oAuth and thought I’d do a quick post on it. This was a hot topic … Continue reading
Three User Experience Guidelines for Ajax Sliders
Ajax Sliders are becoming an ‘in’ tool for filtering search results. They are also quite easy to do wrong if you’re not paying attention to the user experience. Before you read on, check out Properazzi and try out the price … Continue reading
Nokia increases focus on user experience
This is a pretty interesting presentation from Anssi Vanjoki, Nokia’s Executive Vice President (4/12/07). He says, fairly bluntly: Right now, the Nokia Handset User Experience has scope for improvement There are inconsistency problems between applications. Discoverability can be a problem … Continue reading