Sapere Aude
Tag: ui
HyperTIES is an early hypermedia browser developed under the direction of Dr. Ben Shneiderman at the University of Maryland Human Computer Interaction Lab.
HyperTIES Browser (right) and UniPress Emacs Multi Window Text Editor Authoring Tool (left), tab windows and pie menus, running under the NeWS Window System.
what could have been. another awesome OS that died because it was proprietary
Nobody ever gets into a car and asks: “Hey, where’d the steering wheel go?” +1 the unixy customization fetish needs to be much better hidden.
cyborgization continues apace.
an ambient display of an ocean to visualize multivariate changes in real time. think stormy seas for the stock markets
the vatican secret archives are using a google maps like pan/zoom UI to show some historically important documents. i wish it zoomed in more though (and there was a translation / annotation layer on top)
a XULRunner based browser that hosts web applications without the normal browser UI. Based on a concept called Site Specific Browsers. An SSB is an application with an embedded browser designed to work exclusively with a single web application.
Walking barefoot over a cobblestone path is possible, and no step in particular will injure your feet. But the overall experience isn’t nice. It’s the same when a website has minor usability problems piling up: none of the issues taken on its own is disastrous at all, but taken together, the site ends up being a slightly bad experience. I wanted to take a minute to illustrate such a collection of minor usability issues with the new Live.com, Microsoft’s search effort. All in all shows that the Live.com team doesn’t have people with a 100% focus on usability.
why microsoft will continue to inhale the exhaust of their competent competitors as it watches them pull away, and take their remaining market share.
A soldier would wear the lenses and a magnetic sensor attached to the side of his or her head. The sensor picks up any changes in the local magnetic field and works out how the wearer’s eyes are moving.
The ‘outrage’ that fostered this particular rant is the completely broken way in which it supports ‘management’ of ‘my places.’ Basically, it just doesn’t work for any definition of work which includes what I consider the bare minimum functionality. The only interface to your data is to organize it hierarchically. And frankly the drag and drop interface is persnickety as hell, and painful to use.
complaints about the left-side panel. justified, i think
it takes a new Google user 1 month to go from typing novice queries to being a search expert. This means that there is little payoff in optimizing the site to help novices
Gregor J. Rothfuss 