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The world’s most popular touchscreen tablet, the iPad, is predicted to sell 13.8 million units by 2010 and nearly 40 million in 2011. [*] Google, Dell, HP, Samsung, Windows, and ASUS all report that they have tablet devices coming out in the ...

Article - Christopher Roosen - December 02, 2010 - 4 comments - 0 attachments

Change is in the air, or perhaps more accurately, in the airwaves. It's visible every time a child presses a finger to a laptop screen, expecting it to respond, and in business meetings where projectors are left unused in favor of the more intimate, ...

Article - Marek Pawlowski - November 17, 2010 - 15 comments - 0 attachments

Luke Wroblewski , ever a hero of the design community, has posted some useful resources about touch gestures on his blog : The first resource is a Touch Gesture Reference Guide  containing "1) an overview of the core g ...

Article - Jonathan Anderson | UX Magazine - April 26, 2010 - 2 comments - 0 attachments

Communicating thoughts and ideas can be one of the biggest challenges in an industry that relies so heavily on visual interpretation. If you’re working on an idea by yourself, with a colleague or a client, it’s one thing to see an idea in your mind and ...

Article - Juan Sanchez - April 06, 2010 - 8 comments - 0 attachments

Emergent Themes in Designing for Inclusive Product Experiences Products fail us every day. For some reason, though, we tend to blame ourselves for those failures—for our inability to perform adequately, our lack of understanding, and, sometimes, our ...

Article - Mark Baskinger - March 22, 2010 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

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

Every user experience researcher I know gets requests to do heuristic evaluations. But it isn't always clear that the requester actually knows what is involved in doing a heuristic evaluation. That happens. If I had a dollar for every time someone c ...

Article - Dana Chisnell - February 19, 2010 - 14 comments - 0 attachments

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

In his iPhone Resolution video , information design expert Edward Tufte praised the information density and content resolution of the device . Known for evaluating Web interface designs by counting the quantity of links present, Tufte is a ...

Article - Luke Wroblewski - February 17, 2010 - 5 comments - 0 attachments

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