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- Turning your skin into a touchscreen
From Popular Science : The future of touchscreen interfaces is: you? A project between a Carnegie Mellon researcher and a couple of creative thinkers over at Microsoft Research have created Skinput , a Bluetooth-enabled device that allows ...
Article - Jonathan Anderson | UX Magazine - March 03, 2010 - 2 comments - 0 attachments
- Quantum Mechanics Adds A New Dimension to Touch
Here's a case of an interesting new capability made possible by an even more interesting bit of science. The BBC recently reported that "hand-held devices could soon have pressure-sensitive touch-screens and keys, thanks to a UK firm's material that ...
Article - Jonathan Anderson | UX Magazine - February 18, 2010 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Toward a better tablet OS, part 2
Part one of this article can be found here . A man could write for days and not say all there is to say about optimizing a UI for multitouch and tablet use. So I'll limit my observations for now to a few specific cases having to do ...
Article - Devin Coldewey - February 05, 2010 - 9 comments - 0 attachments
- Toward a better tablet OS, part 1
Part two of this article can be found here . As an exploration into the creation of a true tablet computing device, I wrote the piece you are about to read, which, while originally a single 3500-word monster, has been split into ...
Article - Devin Coldewey - February 03, 2010 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- iPad User Experience Guidelines
Apple's Human Interface Guidelines for the iPad outline how to create user interfaces optimized for the iPad device. According to Apple , the best iPad applications: downplay application UI so that the focus is on content; present content in ...
Article - February 02, 2010 - 32 comments - 0 attachments
- Speech Recognition Is Only Part of the Future
This article was originally published on Brad's blog, Feld Thoughts . A few weeks ago, Fred Wilson dictated a post on his blog, A VC , using his Nexus One phone . He also discovered Swype , a ...
Article - Brad Feld - February 01, 2010 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Tablet usability: the future can't come soon enough
Last weekend I sat on the Tube (the London Underground to international readers), Piccadilly line to be exact, heading into central London. A young man got on and sat down opposite me. He got out a little ASUS netbook , turned it on, and swiveled the ...
Article - Steve Workman - January 22, 2010 - 5 comments - 0 attachments
- Swype for Android: New touchscreen text input method
Check out MobileCruch's article about Swype , an interesting touch text input method for Android , or just jump to their YouTube video demo of it. Finally, that thin layer of skin oil that's always streaking up your touchscreen device h ...
Article - Jonathan Anderson | UX Magazine - December 15, 2009 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Minority Report, now.
I give you a complete, real-world working version of the UI Tom Cruise was fondling in Minority Report . Not sure what type of repetitive stress injury you’ll bring upon yourself waving your arms around like that all day but it certainly is an ...
Article - Alex Schleifer - November 15, 2008 - 1 comment - 0 attachments
- My Beef with the NYC Taxicab Touchscreens
If you’ve ridden in a NYC taxicab in the past 6 months, you’ve likely noticed the touchscreen TV in the back seat. At first I thought this was a great innovation — GPS-powered maps to show the distance between me and my destination, real-time loc ...
Article - Whitney Hess - July 06, 2008 - 0 comments - 0 attachments