Meaningful Transitions
The purpose of Meaningful Transitions is to illustrate the process of the interaction and the structure of the user interface. They focus on specific events, or clarifying the user’s interaction by animation
An amazing resource to examine the use of motion graphics in the user interface.
Really cool concept of what the future office desk might look like. The demo the team created is well done, they just need to figure out how to shrink it down to the thickness of an LCD and it’s there. Be sure to click through and see the video demonstration.
via Fubiz
The Ultimate Guide to Table UI Patterns
Great article on how to design usable tables for UI. It can be an extremely calming, almost pleasurable experience to scan well structured, well presented data. However, as is often the case poor data presentation can turn information review into an exhausting experience. Hopefully more people will read this and take away some best practices.
Source: jankoatwarpspeed.com
The Interactive Holographics in Iron Man 2
Siftables, the toy blocks that think. I heard about Sifteo when I attended the Gamepacolyspe speech by Jesse Schell last week in San Francisco and finally had a moment to check out their web site. Really cool idea and the potential for learning applications seems almost limitless. It’s going to be interesting to see how they continue to iterate on this new area of human digital interaction.
nikf.org: 8 Subtle Changes You May (Or May Not) Notice in iOS 4
Every time Apple releases a new OS update, be it on the Mac or iPhone, there’s a bucketload of smaller - lesser-spotted - changes that appear in the system. iOS 4 very much continues this trend, so whilst you’re busy perusing the new update today here’s 8 little changes you may (or may not) spot.
Source: nikf
Maya Rota Klein uses cardboard and kitchen utensils to create a mock tutorial for how-to make “lovely butter cookies” with Adobe Photoshop CS3 Cook.
Great way to present a prototype.
The Touch Gesture Reference Guide is a unique set of resources for software designers and developers working on touch-based user interfaces.
via LukeW
Source: lukew.com
Designing OmniGraphSketcher for the iPad - Blog - The Omni Group
A really great write up on The Omni Group’s approach to conception and prototyping of their new app OmniGraphSketcher through the use of paper.
Source: omnigroup.com
