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Moblin Netbook OS Optimized for Social Networks
The main dashboard for this netbook OS is centered around productivity and social communications.
Moblin 2.0 Netbook Beta Introduction
from:http://moblin.org/documentation/moblin-netbook-intro
Make The Logo Bigger
So it’s Friday. This is an oldie but a goodie that will always make me laugh. If you are a designer, then you probably have heard more than once to…Make the logo bigger.mp3
Make The Logo Bigger (Lyrics)
Make the logo big.Make the logo bigger.Make the logo big.Make the logo bigger.
ChorusMake the [...]
Several iPhone to do apps compared
Update 2009-10-26
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It appears that Zenbe is now charging $2.99 for the iPhone app.
I just discovered a new free contender out there that seems very much like the Zenbe lists
Doris
http://beta.dorisapp.com
They have a Mac Dashboard widget, a website and an iPhone app. I haven’t given this a full test, but it looks very promising. It has [...]
The “whole” expierience – twittering for business 101
Twitter, and other third-party communication channels are increasingly being used by brands and businesses to help connect with customers in a purely opt in, semi-personal way. This can be done in a good way, and a horribly bad way. To give you some guidance, Chris Brogan has set up a list of things to keep [...]
Read More..>>Electronic Voting Machine UI leads to voter fraud
Eight Clay County, Kentucky election officials were charged last week with conspiring to alter ballots cast on electronic voting machines in several recent elections. …
The Kentucky officials are accused of taking advantage of a somewhat confusing aspect of the way the iVotronic interface was implemented. In particular, the behavior (as described in the indictment) of [...]
Opera Fingertouch proposes a solution for the ‘fat finger’
This is an interesting solution to the problems of small form elements and pages with lists of text links. Instead of clicking to select or accidentally clicking a link when trying to zoom or pan, clicking zooms into the specific area controls, making them larger targets. Currently, it adds an extra click even if you [...]
Read More..>>Augmented Reality
Looks like this technology is moving beyond proof of concepts and into the advertising world. Very cool stuff. And of course the applications for everyone’s pocket viewport (i.e. mobile phone) are endless.
An ad (and instructions) from GE:http://ge.ecomagination.com/smartgrid/#/augmented_reality
On a mobile:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL2ByYozGOI
And a news feature on the technology:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKw_Mp5YkaE
The Nokia Ovi Store is official
Hazaah! So the project I’ve been working on for quite some time has gone public at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona – and so far is getting some pretty good buzz. Reaching this point makes the months of synthesizing complicated requirements, tight deadlines, and multiple visions into one experience all seem worth it. My [...]
Read More..>>The $300 Million Button
A short article explaining the virtues of usability testing. Forcing new users to register to complete a purchase resulted in an astounding abandonment rate. Great quote: “I’m not here to enter into a relationship. I just want to buy something.”. From the article:
The designers fixed the problem simply. They took away the Register button. [...]
Read More..>>5 Best Data Visualization Projects of the Year
Data visualization continues to grow online and in the real world. Itexists as masterful art pieces and amazingly useful analysis tools. Inboth cases though it brings data — which is oftentimes cryptic — tothe masses and shows that data is more than a bucket of numbers. Datais interesting. As we collect more and more data [...]
Read More..>>Del.icio.us Bookmarks for December 20th through January 6th
diller scofidio + renfro – 3D card navigation scheme
3D card navigation scheme
Inference Group: Dasher Project: – Zooming predictive text input system Zooming predictive text input system
How to Use a Gmail Account with Multiple Email Addresses in iPhone Mail – About Email
Welcome to Avego – iphone transportation / ride sharing app
iClarified – [...]
Basics: Disable or Hide?
Back to the basics here. I found this topic on a recent email thread agreat reminder as to why one would disable tools or menu options versus hide them. Of courseit always comes down to context, but the bottom line…
Disable controls that are dependent upon the currently selected tool, mode, or other selection.
Hide options that [...]
Del.icio.us Bookmarks for December 2nd through December 9th
Microsoft – Going Beyond – interactive timeline good, except for the sound
hcdtoolkit – toolkit for mobile UX design oriented toward emerging markets
iPhone PSD Vector Kit | Freebies | Smashing Magazine
Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit v1.0 (Yahoo! Developer Network Blog)
teehan+lax » Blog Archive » iPhone GUI PSD
Del.icio.us Bookmarks for October 27th through December 1st
Feedback Army – super cheap, fast usability testing – using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk distributed labor platform
RapidRabb.it – Online, sharable, rapid prototyping tool
Latest Interfaces | Konigi – lots of design patterns and examples of web interactions
The Knowledge Navigator concept piece by Apple (1987) after Alan Kay
NuevaSync – Over the Air Synchronization
Mozilla’s Fennec – Firefox for mobile devices
Built on an open platform like Firefox, Mozilla’s Fennec alpha release became available last week for download. It is very touch-optimized and contains a smattering of Mobile Safari stylings. You swipe left and right to access other pages, history controls, and settings.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/fennec/1.0a1/releasenotes/
Below are some screenshots running on the emulator for the Mac.
normal
swipe to the right
swipe [...]
Del.icio.us Bookmarks for September 12th through October 23rd
Balsamiq Studios, makers of plugins for Web Office applications | Balsamiq
Fitbit – Automatically Track Your Fitness and Sleep
How to Sync iPhone with multiple computers « tinyfish
“social networking” Job Trends | Indeed.com
MegaPhone | Making Digital Signage Interactive
Mircosoft Reasearch UK and SideSight
Alex Butler, Shahram Izadi, and Steve Hodges, all with Microsoft Research UK have been prototyping gestural interactions outside the device itself. This will take some work to get it right and get it right in the proper contexts, but a creative approach for ever-shrinking devices.
By twisting one’s hands appropriately on either side of the phone, [...]
Read More..>>Several iPhone to do apps compared
So I’m a big fan of to-do lists – enough to put “research and review to-do lists” on my to-do list. I was looking for one for the iphone, so I read some reviews and spent some time using each. Here is my take on the following free iphone apps from an interaction and usability [...]
Read More..>>8 hacks to make Firefox ridiculously fast
So I’ve come across a few tips for speeding up firefox. I’ve included the ones I feel should be the most valuable or stable. These can be added by tweaking the about:config file or creating a user.js file in your user profile folder. Be careful and use at your own risk!
Enable pipelining
Browsers are normally very [...]
Marshall McLuhan on the Global Village
I recently came across this famous forecast from Marshall McLuhan on what he coined the “Global Village”:
“The global village is a world in which you don’t necessarily have harmony, you have extreme concern with everybody else’s business. And much involvement in everybody else’s life. [...] And so the global village is as big as [...]
Touch screen predictive text entry – Swype & Shapewriter
2 companies have recently released software that aims to speed text entry on touch-screen devices. The prospect of this very promising, especially for mobile devices. Hopefully the accuracy is improved since a wrong suggestion can wipe away the perceived benefits of several right ones.
ShapeWriter™ makes mobile phones, tablet computers, game pads, and all other touch-screen [...]
Read More..>>Del.icio.us Bookmarks for August 6th through September 12th
Instapaper
Axure Design Pattern Library v1.0 at A Clean Design
Gestalt Psychology theory – visual laws: Proximity, Similarity, etc.
Welcome to CellSpin – mobile blog posting aggregator
Welcome to CellSpin – mobile blog posting aggregator
SenseSurface
This is a great example of augmenting virtual environments with real physical controls. I am really interested to see computing technologies augment metaphors for real-world interaction with actual real-world interaction.
http://girtonlabs.googlepages.com/sensesurface
(those are real knobs magnetically attached to the screen)
Read More..>>The return of the Command Line – Mozilla Labs’ Ubiquity
The command line interface is making a comeback! Some say it never left. I never liked them, since they required you to memorize a strict lexicon of cryptic commands, but for certain tasks, they are efficient and powerful. Enter the new generation which eschew formalist structure in favor of “natural language” commands.
For desktop integration, there [...]
ok let’s cancel
So, which one is the right choice?
I got this alert dialog today while installing the Firefox 3.0 add-in “Foxmarks”. Nice one…
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