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Hearthstone: How to Create an Immersive User Interface Derek Sakamoto | Senior User Interface Designer, Blizzard Entertainment Location: Room 3020, West Hall Date: Wednesday, March 4 Time: 11:00am - 11:30am
A Palm Zire Z22 handheld computer, one of the last to use Palm OS. I bought it for about $100 in 2005 to replace an older Palm V device. Most of the apps were preinstalled, although there was a way to download them from the Web and sync them to the device. Text input was through a pen writing on the screen. There was no wifi connectivity. I used it mainly as an address book and calendar, and synced them to Palm's excellent desktop application. Per the terms of this creative commons license, please credit "iPod Touch In 30 Minutes" and link to ipod.in30minutes.com if you use this photo.
Despite the excellent build quality and terrific user interface, I am a bit disappointed by how bad the Panasonic GX1 handles harsh light like sun on snow in high contrasty scenes. It clips it right off and leaves almost no room for mistakes not even in the RAW file. I guess the full format sensor from the 5Dmk2 made me quite spoiled on the high light issue. Well, there´s nothing else to do than make the best of it.
Edit: The weird thing is that my LX3 handles the snow better than the GX1. www.flickr.com/photos/fredf78/6862887557
Edit2: After some research I've come to the conclusion that the LX3 sports a CCD sensor and the GX1 an CMOS. The CCD still outperforms the CMOS in terms of dynamic range with a factor of 2. No wonder my LX3 shots looks better in high contrasty scenes. What a pity. The GX1, a terrible player in this field. If had I known this before I purchased it, I might have considered another camera. Sigh.
Day 1
'Dive Into User-Interface Design' Workshop 02 with Niyam Bhushan. At 91Springboard, Gurgaon, Haryana, India, on 10 - 11 October 2014. More details at bit.ly/niyam
Every other day and I do mean every other day, a so-called tech reporter writes a predictable article about how Apple is screwing themselves out of market share by not being "open." You probably know where this is going. Invariably they compare the current iPhone versus Android controversy to the Mac versus Windows drama that played out about twenty-six years ago.
Their wise argument usually sounds something like this:
"Back in 1984, Apple leapt way ahead in the PC market when it released the original Macintosh, the first popular computer to employ a graphical user interface. It took Microsoft six years to come up with something that could compare to the Mac, in the form of Windows 3.0. Six years! For all that time, Apple had the market to itself. Nevertheless, Windows took over the world and now holds more than 90 percent market share, while Apple squeaks by with less than 5 percent worldwide."
Actually those are the exact words used in a Newsweek column by the link baiting Dan Lyons, who ironically, masquerades as a parody of Steve Jobs in his popular blog. His words will sound ironic in a minute, so just hear me out.
On the surface, the comparison to Windows sounds not only prophetic, but if you believe the angst of the tech media at large, absolutely karmic. After all, Apple has been painted as the modern day Anti-Christ for their oppressive censorship of the App Store.
www.esarcasm.com/4212/apple-china-to-collectively-oppress...
Who better to bring us out of the darkness of iTunes than the "do-no-evil" Google? It sounds only natural, right?
Well, not exactly. There are at least three good reasons why the current situation with the iPhone and Android is nothing like 1984.
(1) Windows licensing is much more restrictive than Android licensing.
Much has been made of Google's licensing of Android to various cell phone manufacturers, inferring with it the promise of Microsoft-style world domination. Of course, there is a fundamental difference in the approach of Google and Microsoft. When you buy a Dell, you don't get a Dell user interface. You get Windows. When you buy a HP, you don't get a HP version of Windows, you get Windows. While Microsoft's Windows license is open in the sense that it doesn't restrict the installation of Windows on hardware, it does prevent PC manufacturers from modifying the underlying Windows foundation, and that restriction has had a positive affect on Windows app development.
In other words, when you code for Windows you know that the OS is going to be the same on all computers. When you code for Android, there is a different version for every phone (Android 1.5, 1.6 and 2.0), which means that when you write an app, you might have to debug for 3 different platforms. And even worse, Android is featured on different phone hardware and different cell phone carriers, who all dictate different features for their phones and want their phones integrated with their native services. Some companies, like HTC and Motorola, have even modified the user interface, firmware and internal ROMs, making Android compatibility a mess of epic proportions.
As our illustrious Dan Lyons admitted under the guise of his alter ego:
"Dear friends, this is only going to get worse, not better. Think about it. Every handset maker wants its device to be different. And special. So they intentionally tweak the OS to give themselves what they think of as an “advantage,” when really it’s nothing of the sort, because all it does is prevent ISVs from writing apps for them. Even if the handset makers weren’t totally short-sighted and evil, there’s the competency issue."
This brings me to another problem: what happens when all the Android partners start to compete with each other, if they aren't already? What company is willing to put money and development time into a unique app, only to have it stolen by another Android partner? Why insure compatibility when you can just as well make a modification that ensures the app only works on your Android phone? The implications of the "open" nature of Android is actually a hindrance to vibrant app development.
Currently, the App Store is the de facto standard for smartphones, whether the tech media wants to admit it or not. That may change in the coming future, assuming Google gets their act together, but developers tend to pick what they like at an early stage and stick with it, especially if they're making money. And as I've argued in the past, Android's ecosystem isn't exactly turning into Walmart right now.
www.flickr.com/photos/pacman3000/4127815088/
(2) Android has no equivalent of iTunes.
One of the most fundamental issues that tech reporters often leave out of their discussions about Windows is the reality of the situation with the Mac back in 1984. First of all, the Mac never had anything approaching the market share of the iPhone, which is currently at 17 percent worldwide. Furthermore, the forerunner of the Mac, the LISA, which featured the original graphical user interface, was an outright failure.
MS-DOS, the command line forerunner to Windows is actually the platform that garnered much of the original market share credited to Microsoft. The first two versions of Windows failed in the market. It was only after the release of Windows 3.0, with its native ability to run legacy DOS programs, that Windows became popular. In much the same way that the success of Windows was predicated upon the early success of MS-DOS, so it is with the iPhone.
In other words, iTunes is to the App Store as MS-DOS is to Windows.
(3) The iPhone is a premium phone without the premium pricing.
I think this doesn't need too much explanation, but the original Mac was sorta pricey. In fact, it was so pricey that Steve Jobs himself was pissed about it! If you know anything about the history of Apple, it was John Sculley, the Pepsi marketing genius that Jobs lured to the position of CEO, who jacked up the price of the original Mac. Apparently Sculley wanted to recoup the costs of an expensive marketing campaign (yes, that expensive 1.5 million 1984 Superbowl commercial). As a result, the Mac was relegated to niche status.*
This, however, isn't the case with the iPhone. Apple has vigorously lowered the price of the phone since the beginning, even going so far as to sell it at Walmart.
www.businessinsider.com/2009/2/99-iphone-coming-this-summer
So just to recap, I've established why Android licensing is nothing like Windows licensing. If anything, it has more in common with the platform on which it is based, Linux. Apple on the other hand, has broad appeal, thanks to the early success of iTunes (which resembles the DOS model), and the standardization of mobile apps because of the App Store (which resembles the eventual ascendance of Windows). And the iPhone, like early PCs, is reasonably priced.
So why is Android being compared to Windows again?
*Note: Mac sales were later revitalized by the introduction of the LaserWriter and Pagemaker, but in comparison to the mass adoption of DOS, that is a minor caveat in the scheme of things.
Related Links:
www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/11/android-fragmentation/
www.fakesteve.net/2009/11/developers-only-now-realizing-t...
www.russellbeattie.com/blog/android-is-splintering-just-n...
www.wirelessweek.com/Articles/2009/12/Android-Fragmentation/
HemeshGui is a graphical user interface I made for the excellent Hemesh library by Frederik Vanhoutte. HemeshGui can render shapes directly in Sunflow via Christopher Warnow's SunflowApiApi. These are some of the first things I made with it! ;-)
Blogpost: CreativeApplications
Source Code: Google Code
Bad user interface design could be everywhere, even on a gas pump. What should you press to select your preferred gas?
A lot of users pressed the big yellow sign. Did they get their choice? No. We can easily see (Traces: around the 87, the yellow sign is cleaner and a small region is even erased) that several users thought the yellow sign was a button, but it wasn’t.
Boston, 2006
Read my post on this bad design
The Design Revolution continues with another workshop on 30th-31st Oct, 2015 at 91Springboard, Gurgaon. With Co-Founders, CEO, Directors, Product Managers, Software Enigineers, Junior Software Developers, Art Supervisers, Growth Hacker and more.Companies like Tagos, Digilogues, Seclure Technology, Whizkidz Media, 99Acres, Dijyo Spiritual Pendants, 91Springboard, Urbane Concepts Pvt Ltd and ADOBE.Powered by NASSCOM 10000 Startups and SHEREOS.IN.
Hearthstone: How to Create an Immersive User Interface Derek Sakamoto | Senior User Interface Designer, Blizzard Entertainment Location: Room 3020, West Hall Date: Wednesday, March 4 Time: 11:00am - 11:30am
Flickr has dead because of terrible new user interface, but Flickr friends are still precious. So I keep uploading, Not For Flickr, But For Flickr Friends[NFFBFF]
Anyone who share the same thought, you can use this sentence to insist the same thought to Flickr.
Flickrの新画面は大変残念です。でも、Flickrの友達はかけがえのないものです。だからFlickrのためではなく、Flickr友達のためだけに写真をアップし続けようと思います(Not For Flickr, But For Flickr Friends[NFFBFFF])
これに賛同していただける方は、この文章をご自由に使ってFlickrに自己主張をお願いします。
Taken at Mukojima-hyakkaen, Tokyo, Japan.
向島百花園にて
[ Nikon D4, Nikon Ai AF Micro-Nikkor 200mm f/4D IF-ED, f/8.0, 1/80sec, ISO140, Lightroom 5 ]
The Design Revolution continues with another workshop on 30th-31st Oct, 2015 at 91Springboard, Gurgaon. With Co-Founders, CEO, Directors, Product Managers, Software Enigineers, Junior Software Developers, Art Supervisers, Growth Hacker and more.Companies like Tagos, Digilogues, Seclure Technology, Whizkidz Media, 99Acres, Dijyo Spiritual Pendants, 91Springboard, Urbane Concepts Pvt Ltd and ADOBE.Powered by NASSCOM 10000 Startups and SHEREOS.IN.
The Design Revolution continues with another workshop on 30th-31st Oct, 2015 at 91Springboard, Gurgaon. With Co-Founders, CEO, Directors, Product Managers, Software Enigineers, Junior Software Developers, Art Supervisers, Growth Hacker and more.Companies like Tagos, Digilogues, Seclure Technology, Whizkidz Media, 99Acres, Dijyo Spiritual Pendants, 91Springboard, Urbane Concepts Pvt Ltd and ADOBE.Powered by NASSCOM 10000 Startups and SHEREOS.IN.
Yeah, ha ha ha... I used to read Superman comics when I was a child. I also read Spider-Man, Justice League of America, Batman - Anyway, way too much background on why I titled this one with the title of the letters column from the Superman comics. Maybe I'll talk about comics some other time.
Anyway, birthday greetings from Bree Scott up there, and yes, I'm on URNotAlone. ^_^; That was nice that they wished me a happy birthday, even if it was an automated mail. Mistress Cathy is also in my inbox as well. I only have a few facebook friends as Julie, but I also have one friend from my other side who may or may not know she's seeing another side of me. (The plot thickens...) - I don't link to my Flickr on Facebook. ^_^;
There's also Christine, a.k.a. Punno from Australia, who I friended over here, because I was a dork and replied to one of her posts as Julie Anne instead of my "secret identity" ^_^; She's cool with it, even though she heard about me through one of my friends. (Gee, it would have been nice if he had ASKED ME first before telling her! Man, does he tell EVERYONE about me?! heh heh...)
And, of course, dear, sweet Tom - I hope you're feeling better, and making a recovery. You gave me an awful scare while I was on vacation in Reno earlier in the week...
Oh, yeah, Knez wished me a happy birthday - he thinks I'm 19... I kind of wish I was 19 again. It really would make things a hell of a lot easier, at least on the way to figuring out who I am, and who I want to be. At least I can say I will never, ever, act my true age, always younger... I guess I get that from my mom as well.
Oh, yeah! - I bought myself something very special for my birthday today - my first garter belt, and several pairs of sheer thigh-high stockings. If I have some time in the next few days, and you're good, I'll psyche myself up to take some pictures. Of course, I'll be wearing something with those, otherwise I'd look like a beached whale. ^_^; (Yeah, I'm pretty rough on myself... An old defense mechanism from my other side. I know who's rooting for me to get back into shape. This should be the week. This needs to be the week. There's a LOT of stuff I need to do. It's a new year for me, and time to get back on "the program".)
Ok, psycho-babble time is over... I think I have one more fun thing to show off before idling for some games, or a movie before sleeping, perhaps a book? I need some more books.... Yawn....
(I think I'm going to steal Raider3's DJ Hero turntable controller... ^_^;)
In this user interface room, researchers study the way all kinds of viewers and listeners might access new BBC services.
User interface for my Nikon converted microscope. I mounted a stepper motor on the nikon stand. With microscope lenses I can use stacking photography again. I have a generic lens 4X, 40x and 100x that can give me beautiful images via the Nikon D7100. The step size for the 4x lens lens is 20 um. For a height of 2mm you have to take 100 pictures. With the Zerene stacking software, a photo is then compiled. This software can also create a 3D image. Later I will post more information about the device.
The main controller is the Fischertechnik TXT Controller and connected via the I2C to mijn FPGA unit.
The home screen of the Apple TV features an interface familiar to iPod and Front Row users.
Podcasts are a featured category, separate from movies and music.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECub4tpRaic
ZoomCharts Co-Founder and CEO Janis Volbergs gave a well received presentation at a UI/UX meetup event to talk about the array of progressive ZoomCharts features available today and the great things the team is coming up with for the near future.
Check out this overview of Volbergsâ presentation to discover why ZoomCharts is a world leader in interactive data visualization software:
The name of our product is ZoomCharts, and what we are producing is ZoomCharts SDK, which is the worldâs most interactive data software. We are a new startup established in Latvia just last year. The product, since March of this year, is available for purchase and has been purchased by many different customers from all over the world. The actual product is entirely new data visualization software development GIT, which puts in the center not the technology, but the person sitting behind the device that every one of us has in the pockets; users of mobile phones, users of iPads.
We wanted to make such a development toolkit that would allow developers to create interfaces that make it easy to access data, to analyze data, to interact with data. We are not a library that lets you create a chart, we are a library that lets you create an interface that then engages the user into an immersive, interactive data exploration venture.
To give you an idea of what sort of visualizations you can achieve using our development kit, we have products like the network chart. The network chart lets you visualize different networks of data, whether they are social networks, whether they are Internet of things networks. All of that you can visualize on any device you have, basically, whether itâs an iPhone, iPad, notebook, or touch TV. The interactive time chart lets you access big data with time and explore what happens within specific areas of that data without using any other interface component. We have also reinvented the pie chart and the facet chart.
What makes our SDK unique? First of all, itâs built to make data navigation engaging, so it wonât be just a boring chart or boring interface. It will be interesting for people to actually use your software that would include a ZoomCharts application. We also know that most of you like the performance of the application, so we put a lot of effort in creating this development kit such that it will be super nice looking and super fast on most contemporary devices. We have also added different aspects of how you can visualize different data in a compelling way. And for those of you who already have some applications or products, ZoomCharts helps you sell your product because when we show our products to actual consumers, when they see the interface built with ZoomCharts, they love it, and they can immediately see how they can use it for other purposes. So basically, what we are doing with ZoomCharts is accelerating the emergence of new ideas that couldnât have been done yesterday because there wasnât such development yet available.
I could talk a lot about it, but itâs better to show you some real life examples of how we have applied ZoomCharts to tackle some of the issues in the real world. With a product called myinstabank, the Internet account statements show a long boring list, and when you need to see the big picture, you just canât. All you get is just a list. Normally you would just use the export option to make some Excel charts. We found that we could use our interface to give all this information another meaning in the hands of users. We applied our charts to the already existing data within the Internet banks.
What we have here is a time chart. It shows you data aggregated by timestamps. So if you have any data that has timestamps, you can use the time chart. The picture is where most of the chart libraries end; it is the end product of their libraries. In our case, the chart is just the beginning of your venture because now letâs imagine you wanted to see what happened in the year 2012. What do you have to do? One click. You just click on it, and immediately the chart communicates with the banking database, retrieves more data for that period, and immediately aggregates data. No more dropdowns where you have to pick specific dates or unintuitive actions. The rest of the interface then responds to the time period you have selected. The list is there, but now itâs filtered for that one year you just selected. If you need some other information, just one click, and the interface is communicating back to the server and fetching data. Speaking about the pie charts, they immediately show you where your money is coming from, and how you spent your money. All our charts are interactive, so you can click on any slice to filter out the time chart. I said before that we have reinvented certain aspects of the pie chart and one of the key aspects that we have reinvented is, normally if you have a pie chart, you have a grey area that says âothersâ and you never know whatâs inside there. Well, we have fixed that problem. Just one click and it automatically expands. So now, using one pie chart, you can explore all the data.
All of this is interactive, so on iPad, you can use gestures to swipe in, swipe out, do all sorts of things. All charts come bundled with extensive API, which means that you can combine these charts with other JavaScript components that exist within your application to create an interface and an experience to your user that you are looking forward to. The time chart is big data ready because it comes with a very smart data cache and if you attach it to the data sources that handle a lot of data, whenever you do some navigation, it automatically reflects only data for that particular period of time, so there is no unnecessary data being fetched from your servers. Thus, you keep the loads small, the interface fluid, and the overall experience very nice.
One of the very unique products that we have within ZoomCharts is the network chart component. The network chart component lets you visualize different social, financial and other network structures directly within your device. In this particular example, what we did is fetch a subset of the IMDb database to show you how you can use the network chart to visualize information that is already there but in a totally different way. So imagine you get home and you would like to see a new movie but you are not really sure what you want to look for. You know that you like Al Pacino, so what you do is type in âAl Pacinoâ and immediately you see the actor and the top movies of his. This is the point where your joy of data exploration begins. With a single tap, you can explore what other actors are involved in that particular movie. And you can continue this exploration until you find content that youâd be happy to consume. What is good here is this moment of trust because you started with Al Pacino, you trust that person, you love movies with him, and now you can see that there is Andy Garcia that is linked to him. So you think, âhmm, if I like Al Pacino, they are linked in this movie together, maybe thatâs something worth watching today.â With a right click, you can instantly access more information about the movie, and watch a trailer or buy the movie. So what Iâm saying here is, using ZoomCharts as a core component of visual interface, you can let people discover your content, find something they like, and also buy it or consume it. So itâs not just seeing the big picture, but itâs interacting and consuming. And all of this is happening within one interface.
In the next year, weâre also thinking about expanding the charts to let cross device communication, which would mean that you would go home, take your iPad, open up this software, and when you find a movie that you want to watch, you would click âbuyâ or âwatchâ, and it would start playing on your TV. So, devices would be cross linked through using the ZoomCharts interface.
This chart comes with extensive API so you can apply different filters to the data. For instance, in this particular example, we have applied this IMDb filter here, so if youâre really are not looking at anything below 9, you can click on 9 and see that there are not that many movies within this subset. If you are not that kind of person, you can put the star limit to something smaller, and movies appear.
Another interesting aspect is the time machine within which you can filter out movies that are very old, or on the other hand, you can focus on movies that are contemporary. All of that can be easily configured for your application, for your customers, for your product, as you need it. You can style any aspect of your charts with pictures line, arrows.
Many companies, among which is Hewlett-Packard from the United States have already found usage for their cloud solutions to visualize all sorts of different things.
If you go to our webpage you can see other examples of ways you can use our charts. Our charts can be cross combined in very interesting ways. What you see here is Juliaâs social network and who her friends are. You can play around with the network and expand and see what other people are there in real time, but when you click again on Julia, a pie chart pops up and says what social networks Julia is using most. So in this user interface, we are already combining a lot of data that is easily accessible with just a few taps. And it doesnât stop there. So, she loves Facebook. We can click on Facebook, and the second level of the pie chart comes up. There can be unlimited levels. The second level shows which tags she is using within that social network. So now we know that Julia loves Facebook, and within Facebook, she loves to talk about love. Another thing you can do is click on Love, and you get this interactive time chart that says when exactly she is talking about love on Facebook.
In the close future, in a year or two, we are looking forward to integrating support for a number of new human-machine interfaces that are emerging. We are also looking forward to integrating voice control into our charts so you can easily zoom in, zoom out or do other sorts of navigational things.
There are many new chart types coming up, such as the GeoChart, which will let you easily put those interactive pie charts on a map so you can display different statistics for people within one chart.
We are also looking forward to creating a bunch of cloud services that would enable cross chart communication on the one hand, and other things that Iâm not really allowed to tell you now, but there will be some big things that you will hear about.
What is good is availability. As I mentioned before, the software is already available to download on our webpage. You can easily get a 30 day free trial to just play around with it. We are giving away free licenses also for non commercial projects, for students, for charities. But if you have a commercial project you would still need to obtain a developer license.
Check out ZoomCharts products:
Network Chart
Big network exploration
Explore linked data sets. Highlight relevant data with dynamic filters and visual styles. Incremental data loading. Exploration with focus nodes.
Time Chart
Time navigation and exploration tool
Browse activity logs, select time ranges. Multiple data series and value axes. Switch between time units.
Pie Chart
Amazingly intuitive hierarchical data exploration
Get quick overview of your data and drill down when necessary. All in a single easy to use chart.
Facet Chart
Scrollable bar chart with drill-down
Compare values side by side and provide easy access to the long tail.
ZoomCharts
The worldâs most interactive data visualization software
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In Interactive Design 3, students are asked to select from one of three client briefs to develop a social change project. Cherie, Michael and Jay chose to develop a mobile application to assist with earthquake preparedness. The application offers device features, such as RSS, GPS tracking and "bounce location" to sustain user correspondence during disaster relief efforts.
The team divided the roles and responsibilities to tackle strategic review, competitive analysis, moodboards, user experience, information architecture and interactive design.
Learn more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at www.vfs.com/digitaldesign.
The Design Revolution continues with another workshop on 30th-31st Oct, 2015 at 91Springboard, Gurgaon. With Co-Founders, CEO, Directors, Product Managers, Software Enigineers, Junior Software Developers, Art Supervisers, Growth Hacker and more.Companies like Tagos, Digilogues, Seclure Technology, Whizkidz Media, 99Acres, Dijyo Spiritual Pendants, 91Springboard, Urbane Concepts Pvt Ltd and ADOBE.Powered by NASSCOM 10000 Startups and SHEREOS.IN.
This set of diagrams explains activation energy needed to connect in differnet social systems.
The amount of information capable of being exchanged, plus the ease of exchange, is what is responsible for fast or slow environments. Environments that are difficult to manage slow down social networks.
Enterprise social networks that are slow can slow down the entire company if not implemented correctly. E-mail is often the worst of these (as it counts as a base social network).
Day 2
'Dive Into User-Interface Design' Workshop 02 with Niyam Bhushan. At 91Springboard, Gurgaon, Haryana, India, on 10 - 11 October 2014. More details at bit.ly/niyam
The Design Revolution continues with another workshop on 30th-31st Oct, 2015 at 91Springboard, Gurgaon. With Co-Founders, CEO, Directors, Product Managers, Software Enigineers, Junior Software Developers, Art Supervisers, Growth Hacker and more.Companies like Tagos, Digilogues, Seclure Technology, Whizkidz Media, 99Acres, Dijyo Spiritual Pendants, 91Springboard, Urbane Concepts Pvt Ltd and ADOBE.Powered by NASSCOM 10000 Startups and SHEREOS.IN.
2.4.0.0
- New activity User Interface.
- Locate your device before activity and improve accuracy.
- Change activity type before start.
- Gps general improvement
- Remove #caledos hashtag posting on Fb/Twitter via in-app purchase
- Other minor bug fixing
1.5.0.2
- minor bug fixing
The Design Revolution continues with another workshop on 30th-31st Oct, 2015 at 91Springboard, Gurgaon. With Co-Founders, CEO, Directors, Product Managers, Software Enigineers, Junior Software Developers, Art Supervisers, Growth Hacker and more.Companies like Tagos, Digilogues, Seclure Technology, Whizkidz Media, 99Acres, Dijyo Spiritual Pendants, 91Springboard, Urbane Concepts Pvt Ltd and ADOBE.Powered by NASSCOM 10000 Startups and SHEREOS.IN.
I've accepted the fact that it will get stuck in clock mode for a minute or two each morning. At the very least, unlocking and hitting play twice will get the music going again, even if the display doesn't change. The 5G would often get stuck at the Apple logo in the morning for ~20 seconds and not make a sound for the duration.
Now about that clock mode...
Why? Were people really calling out for a clock when the backlight went out? If dropping down to a 1-bit display saves power or has some other benefit, how about still throwing the current track info up there? Better still, mimic the look and layout of the original iPod. Big Chicago fonts, nostalgia, awesome.
And where did that condensed Futura come from? It's nowhere else in the iPod UI and unless there's a technical reason that restricts content to the center of the display, using a condensed font is pointless (and sticks out like a fart in a church).
Then there's the battery icon. Again, if you're stuck with 1-bit in this mode, embrace it. Make the icon strong, bold and easy to read. The single-pixel battery outline practically vanishes and the high-contrast "highlighted" fill with a checkerboard top edge makes it look like the icon was supposed to be in color, but seven bits got thrown out mechanically after the fact.
The Design Revolution continues with another workshop on 30th-31st Oct, 2015 at 91Springboard, Gurgaon. With Co-Founders, CEO, Directors, Product Managers, Software Enigineers, Junior Software Developers, Art Supervisers, Growth Hacker and more.Companies like Tagos, Digilogues, Seclure Technology, Whizkidz Media, 99Acres, Dijyo Spiritual Pendants, 91Springboard, Urbane Concepts Pvt Ltd and ADOBE.Powered by NASSCOM 10000 Startups and SHEREOS.IN.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECub4tpRaic
ZoomCharts Co-Founder and CEO Janis Volbergs gave a well received presentation at a UI/UX meetup event to talk about the array of progressive ZoomCharts features available today and the great things the team is coming up with for the near future.
Check out this overview of Volbergsâ presentation to discover why ZoomCharts is a world leader in interactive data visualization software:
The name of our product is ZoomCharts, and what we are producing is ZoomCharts SDK, which is the worldâs most interactive data software. We are a new startup established in Latvia just last year. The product, since March of this year, is available for purchase and has been purchased by many different customers from all over the world. The actual product is entirely new data visualization software development GIT, which puts in the center not the technology, but the person sitting behind the device that every one of us has in the pockets; users of mobile phones, users of iPads.
We wanted to make such a development toolkit that would allow developers to create interfaces that make it easy to access data, to analyze data, to interact with data. We are not a library that lets you create a chart, we are a library that lets you create an interface that then engages the user into an immersive, interactive data exploration venture.
To give you an idea of what sort of visualizations you can achieve using our development kit, we have products like the network chart. The network chart lets you visualize different networks of data, whether they are social networks, whether they are Internet of things networks. All of that you can visualize on any device you have, basically, whether itâs an iPhone, iPad, notebook, or touch TV. The interactive time chart lets you access big data with time and explore what happens within specific areas of that data without using any other interface component. We have also reinvented the pie chart and the facet chart.
What makes our SDK unique? First of all, itâs built to make data navigation engaging, so it wonât be just a boring chart or boring interface. It will be interesting for people to actually use your software that would include a ZoomCharts application. We also know that most of you like the performance of the application, so we put a lot of effort in creating this development kit such that it will be super nice looking and super fast on most contemporary devices. We have also added different aspects of how you can visualize different data in a compelling way. And for those of you who already have some applications or products, ZoomCharts helps you sell your product because when we show our products to actual consumers, when they see the interface built with ZoomCharts, they love it, and they can immediately see how they can use it for other purposes. So basically, what we are doing with ZoomCharts is accelerating the emergence of new ideas that couldnât have been done yesterday because there wasnât such development yet available.
I could talk a lot about it, but itâs better to show you some real life examples of how we have applied ZoomCharts to tackle some of the issues in the real world. With a product called myinstabank, the Internet account statements show a long boring list, and when you need to see the big picture, you just canât. All you get is just a list. Normally you would just use the export option to make some Excel charts. We found that we could use our interface to give all this information another meaning in the hands of users. We applied our charts to the already existing data within the Internet banks.
What we have here is a time chart. It shows you data aggregated by timestamps. So if you have any data that has timestamps, you can use the time chart. The picture is where most of the chart libraries end; it is the end product of their libraries. In our case, the chart is just the beginning of your venture because now letâs imagine you wanted to see what happened in the year 2012. What do you have to do? One click. You just click on it, and immediately the chart communicates with the banking database, retrieves more data for that period, and immediately aggregates data. No more dropdowns where you have to pick specific dates or unintuitive actions. The rest of the interface then responds to the time period you have selected. The list is there, but now itâs filtered for that one year you just selected. If you need some other information, just one click, and the interface is communicating back to the server and fetching data. Speaking about the pie charts, they immediately show you where your money is coming from, and how you spent your money. All our charts are interactive, so you can click on any slice to filter out the time chart. I said before that we have reinvented certain aspects of the pie chart and one of the key aspects that we have reinvented is, normally if you have a pie chart, you have a grey area that says âothersâ and you never know whatâs inside there. Well, we have fixed that problem. Just one click and it automatically expands. So now, using one pie chart, you can explore all the data.
All of this is interactive, so on iPad, you can use gestures to swipe in, swipe out, do all sorts of things. All charts come bundled with extensive API, which means that you can combine these charts with other JavaScript components that exist within your application to create an interface and an experience to your user that you are looking forward to. The time chart is big data ready because it comes with a very smart data cache and if you attach it to the data sources that handle a lot of data, whenever you do some navigation, it automatically reflects only data for that particular period of time, so there is no unnecessary data being fetched from your servers. Thus, you keep the loads small, the interface fluid, and the overall experience very nice.
One of the very unique products that we have within ZoomCharts is the network chart component. The network chart component lets you visualize different social, financial and other network structures directly within your device. In this particular example, what we did is fetch a subset of the IMDb database to show you how you can use the network chart to visualize information that is already there but in a totally different way. So imagine you get home and you would like to see a new movie but you are not really sure what you want to look for. You know that you like Al Pacino, so what you do is type in âAl Pacinoâ and immediately you see the actor and the top movies of his. This is the point where your joy of data exploration begins. With a single tap, you can explore what other actors are involved in that particular movie. And you can continue this exploration until you find content that youâd be happy to consume. What is good here is this moment of trust because you started with Al Pacino, you trust that person, you love movies with him, and now you can see that there is Andy Garcia that is linked to him. So you think, âhmm, if I like Al Pacino, they are linked in this movie together, maybe thatâs something worth watching today.â With a right click, you can instantly access more information about the movie, and watch a trailer or buy the movie. So what Iâm saying here is, using ZoomCharts as a core component of visual interface, you can let people discover your content, find something they like, and also buy it or consume it. So itâs not just seeing the big picture, but itâs interacting and consuming. And all of this is happening within one interface.
In the next year, weâre also thinking about expanding the charts to let cross device communication, which would mean that you would go home, take your iPad, open up this software, and when you find a movie that you want to watch, you would click âbuyâ or âwatchâ, and it would start playing on your TV. So, devices would be cross linked through using the ZoomCharts interface.
This chart comes with extensive API so you can apply different filters to the data. For instance, in this particular example, we have applied this IMDb filter here, so if youâre really are not looking at anything below 9, you can click on 9 and see that there are not that many movies within this subset. If you are not that kind of person, you can put the star limit to something smaller, and movies appear.
Another interesting aspect is the time machine within which you can filter out movies that are very old, or on the other hand, you can focus on movies that are contemporary. All of that can be easily configured for your application, for your customers, for your product, as you need it. You can style any aspect of your charts with pictures line, arrows.
Many companies, among which is Hewlett-Packard from the United States have already found usage for their cloud solutions to visualize all sorts of different things.
If you go to our webpage you can see other examples of ways you can use our charts. Our charts can be cross combined in very interesting ways. What you see here is Juliaâs social network and who her friends are. You can play around with the network and expand and see what other people are there in real time, but when you click again on Julia, a pie chart pops up and says what social networks Julia is using most. So in this user interface, we are already combining a lot of data that is easily accessible with just a few taps. And it doesnât stop there. So, she loves Facebook. We can click on Facebook, and the second level of the pie chart comes up. There can be unlimited levels. The second level shows which tags she is using within that social network. So now we know that Julia loves Facebook, and within Facebook, she loves to talk about love. Another thing you can do is click on Love, and you get this interactive time chart that says when exactly she is talking about love on Facebook.
In the close future, in a year or two, we are looking forward to integrating support for a number of new human-machine interfaces that are emerging. We are also looking forward to integrating voice control into our charts so you can easily zoom in, zoom out or do other sorts of navigational things.
There are many new chart types coming up, such as the GeoChart, which will let you easily put those interactive pie charts on a map so you can display different statistics for people within one chart.
We are also looking forward to creating a bunch of cloud services that would enable cross chart communication on the one hand, and other things that Iâm not really allowed to tell you now, but there will be some big things that you will hear about.
What is good is availability. As I mentioned before, the software is already available to download on our webpage. You can easily get a 30 day free trial to just play around with it. We are giving away free licenses also for non commercial projects, for students, for charities. But if you have a commercial project you would still need to obtain a developer license.
Check out ZoomCharts products:
Network Chart
Big network exploration
Explore linked data sets. Highlight relevant data with dynamic filters and visual styles. Incremental data loading. Exploration with focus nodes.
Time Chart
Time navigation and exploration tool
Browse activity logs, select time ranges. Multiple data series and value axes. Switch between time units.
Pie Chart
Amazingly intuitive hierarchical data exploration
Get quick overview of your data and drill down when necessary. All in a single easy to use chart.
Facet Chart
Scrollable bar chart with drill-down
Compare values side by side and provide easy access to the long tail.
ZoomCharts
The worldâs most interactive data visualization software
#zoomcharts #interactive #data #datavisualization #charts #graphs #bigdata #dataviz #CEO #cofounder #JanisVolbergs #Latvia #UI #UX #userexperience #userinterface #SDK #GIT #visualization #iPad #iPhone #network #facet #piechart #timechart #IMDb #AlPacino #AndyGarcia #myinstabank #Facebook #love #API #HP #HewlettPackard #freetrial
I saw several people make the same mistake as me, pressing the product images two or three times before reading the "Choose Here" sign. If you need an arrow to point to your user interface, you're doing it wrong.
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The Design Revolution continues with another workshop on 30th-31st Oct, 2015 at 91Springboard, Gurgaon. With Co-Founders, CEO, Directors, Product Managers, Software Enigineers, Junior Software Developers, Art Supervisers, Growth Hacker and more.Companies like Tagos, Digilogues, Seclure Technology, Whizkidz Media, 99Acres, Dijyo Spiritual Pendants, 91Springboard, Urbane Concepts Pvt Ltd and ADOBE.Powered by NASSCOM 10000 Startups and SHEREOS.IN.
This diagram is an exploration of the future of interactive television. Drawn at Harvard Square while eating breakfast with Paige Saez after the conference MIT's Futures of Entertainment 3.
Ideum recently tested out a paper prototype both with Ideum staff and onsite at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles. To learn more about Ideum's Creative Services visit our website.
First prototype of EXPERIFACE, a minimalist graphic user interface for mobile phones with a capacitive touchscreen. EXPERIFACE simplifies the user interface to 3 main panels, called PANES: HOME, MESSAGES and COMMUNITY, collating all relevant informations from the cloud into 3 main PANES.
This is the COMMUNITY APP after activating from the COMMUNITY PANE. The APP collates information and display them in ROWS: ME, UPDATES and PICTURES.
The APP will retrieve the profile photo of the user, e.g., facebook profile photo is used in this demonstration. The APP also retrieves the latest status update, and is connected to PING.FM (or individually to the social networks if the user so prefer) to manage social connections.
The APP also pulls updates from all your friends and RSS feeds, e.g., News sources from www.channelnewsasia.com, facebook and twitter feeds are collated under the UPDATES ROW.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECub4tpRaic
ZoomCharts Co-Founder and CEO Janis Volbergs gave a well received presentation at a UI/UX meetup event to talk about the array of progressive ZoomCharts features available today and the great things the team is coming up with for the near future.
Check out this overview of Volbergsâ presentation to discover why ZoomCharts is a world leader in interactive data visualization software:
The name of our product is ZoomCharts, and what we are producing is ZoomCharts SDK, which is the worldâs most interactive data software. We are a new startup established in Latvia just last year. The product, since March of this year, is available for purchase and has been purchased by many different customers from all over the world. The actual product is entirely new data visualization software development GIT, which puts in the center not the technology, but the person sitting behind the device that every one of us has in the pockets; users of mobile phones, users of iPads.
We wanted to make such a development toolkit that would allow developers to create interfaces that make it easy to access data, to analyze data, to interact with data. We are not a library that lets you create a chart, we are a library that lets you create an interface that then engages the user into an immersive, interactive data exploration venture.
To give you an idea of what sort of visualizations you can achieve using our development kit, we have products like the network chart. The network chart lets you visualize different networks of data, whether they are social networks, whether they are Internet of things networks. All of that you can visualize on any device you have, basically, whether itâs an iPhone, iPad, notebook, or touch TV. The interactive time chart lets you access big data with time and explore what happens within specific areas of that data without using any other interface component. We have also reinvented the pie chart and the facet chart.
What makes our SDK unique? First of all, itâs built to make data navigation engaging, so it wonât be just a boring chart or boring interface. It will be interesting for people to actually use your software that would include a ZoomCharts application. We also know that most of you like the performance of the application, so we put a lot of effort in creating this development kit such that it will be super nice looking and super fast on most contemporary devices. We have also added different aspects of how you can visualize different data in a compelling way. And for those of you who already have some applications or products, ZoomCharts helps you sell your product because when we show our products to actual consumers, when they see the interface built with ZoomCharts, they love it, and they can immediately see how they can use it for other purposes. So basically, what we are doing with ZoomCharts is accelerating the emergence of new ideas that couldnât have been done yesterday because there wasnât such development yet available.
I could talk a lot about it, but itâs better to show you some real life examples of how we have applied ZoomCharts to tackle some of the issues in the real world. With a product called myinstabank, the Internet account statements show a long boring list, and when you need to see the big picture, you just canât. All you get is just a list. Normally you would just use the export option to make some Excel charts. We found that we could use our interface to give all this information another meaning in the hands of users. We applied our charts to the already existing data within the Internet banks.
What we have here is a time chart. It shows you data aggregated by timestamps. So if you have any data that has timestamps, you can use the time chart. The picture is where most of the chart libraries end; it is the end product of their libraries. In our case, the chart is just the beginning of your venture because now letâs imagine you wanted to see what happened in the year 2012. What do you have to do? One click. You just click on it, and immediately the chart communicates with the banking database, retrieves more data for that period, and immediately aggregates data. No more dropdowns where you have to pick specific dates or unintuitive actions. The rest of the interface then responds to the time period you have selected. The list is there, but now itâs filtered for that one year you just selected. If you need some other information, just one click, and the interface is communicating back to the server and fetching data. Speaking about the pie charts, they immediately show you where your money is coming from, and how you spent your money. All our charts are interactive, so you can click on any slice to filter out the time chart. I said before that we have reinvented certain aspects of the pie chart and one of the key aspects that we have reinvented is, normally if you have a pie chart, you have a grey area that says âothersâ and you never know whatâs inside there. Well, we have fixed that problem. Just one click and it automatically expands. So now, using one pie chart, you can explore all the data.
All of this is interactive, so on iPad, you can use gestures to swipe in, swipe out, do all sorts of things. All charts come bundled with extensive API, which means that you can combine these charts with other JavaScript components that exist within your application to create an interface and an experience to your user that you are looking forward to. The time chart is big data ready because it comes with a very smart data cache and if you attach it to the data sources that handle a lot of data, whenever you do some navigation, it automatically reflects only data for that particular period of time, so there is no unnecessary data being fetched from your servers. Thus, you keep the loads small, the interface fluid, and the overall experience very nice.
One of the very unique products that we have within ZoomCharts is the network chart component. The network chart component lets you visualize different social, financial and other network structures directly within your device. In this particular example, what we did is fetch a subset of the IMDb database to show you how you can use the network chart to visualize information that is already there but in a totally different way. So imagine you get home and you would like to see a new movie but you are not really sure what you want to look for. You know that you like Al Pacino, so what you do is type in âAl Pacinoâ and immediately you see the actor and the top movies of his. This is the point where your joy of data exploration begins. With a single tap, you can explore what other actors are involved in that particular movie. And you can continue this exploration until you find content that youâd be happy to consume. What is good here is this moment of trust because you started with Al Pacino, you trust that person, you love movies with him, and now you can see that there is Andy Garcia that is linked to him. So you think, âhmm, if I like Al Pacino, they are linked in this movie together, maybe thatâs something worth watching today.â With a right click, you can instantly access more information about the movie, and watch a trailer or buy the movie. So what Iâm saying here is, using ZoomCharts as a core component of visual interface, you can let people discover your content, find something they like, and also buy it or consume it. So itâs not just seeing the big picture, but itâs interacting and consuming. And all of this is happening within one interface.
In the next year, weâre also thinking about expanding the charts to let cross device communication, which would mean that you would go home, take your iPad, open up this software, and when you find a movie that you want to watch, you would click âbuyâ or âwatchâ, and it would start playing on your TV. So, devices would be cross linked through using the ZoomCharts interface.
This chart comes with extensive API so you can apply different filters to the data. For instance, in this particular example, we have applied this IMDb filter here, so if youâre really are not looking at anything below 9, you can click on 9 and see that there are not that many movies within this subset. If you are not that kind of person, you can put the star limit to something smaller, and movies appear.
Another interesting aspect is the time machine within which you can filter out movies that are very old, or on the other hand, you can focus on movies that are contemporary. All of that can be easily configured for your application, for your customers, for your product, as you need it. You can style any aspect of your charts with pictures line, arrows.
Many companies, among which is Hewlett-Packard from the United States have already found usage for their cloud solutions to visualize all sorts of different things.
If you go to our webpage you can see other examples of ways you can use our charts. Our charts can be cross combined in very interesting ways. What you see here is Juliaâs social network and who her friends are. You can play around with the network and expand and see what other people are there in real time, but when you click again on Julia, a pie chart pops up and says what social networks Julia is using most. So in this user interface, we are already combining a lot of data that is easily accessible with just a few taps. And it doesnât stop there. So, she loves Facebook. We can click on Facebook, and the second level of the pie chart comes up. There can be unlimited levels. The second level shows which tags she is using within that social network. So now we know that Julia loves Facebook, and within Facebook, she loves to talk about love. Another thing you can do is click on Love, and you get this interactive time chart that says when exactly she is talking about love on Facebook.
In the close future, in a year or two, we are looking forward to integrating support for a number of new human-machine interfaces that are emerging. We are also looking forward to integrating voice control into our charts so you can easily zoom in, zoom out or do other sorts of navigational things.
There are many new chart types coming up, such as the GeoChart, which will let you easily put those interactive pie charts on a map so you can display different statistics for people within one chart.
We are also looking forward to creating a bunch of cloud services that would enable cross chart communication on the one hand, and other things that Iâm not really allowed to tell you now, but there will be some big things that you will hear about.
What is good is availability. As I mentioned before, the software is already available to download on our webpage. You can easily get a 30 day free trial to just play around with it. We are giving away free licenses also for non commercial projects, for students, for charities. But if you have a commercial project you would still need to obtain a developer license.
Check out ZoomCharts products:
Network Chart
Big network exploration
Explore linked data sets. Highlight relevant data with dynamic filters and visual styles. Incremental data loading. Exploration with focus nodes.
Time Chart
Time navigation and exploration tool
Browse activity logs, select time ranges. Multiple data series and value axes. Switch between time units.
Pie Chart
Amazingly intuitive hierarchical data exploration
Get quick overview of your data and drill down when necessary. All in a single easy to use chart.
Facet Chart
Scrollable bar chart with drill-down
Compare values side by side and provide easy access to the long tail.
ZoomCharts
The worldâs most interactive data visualization software
#zoomcharts #interactive #data #datavisualization #charts #graphs #bigdata #dataviz #CEO #cofounder #JanisVolbergs #Latvia #UI #UX #userexperience #userinterface #SDK #GIT #visualization #iPad #iPhone #network #facet #piechart #timechart #IMDb #AlPacino #AndyGarcia #myinstabank #Facebook #love #API #HP #HewlettPackard #freetrial
The Design Revolution continues with another workshop on 30th-31st Oct, 2015 at 91Springboard, Gurgaon. With Co-Founders, CEO, Directors, Product Managers, Software Enigineers, Junior Software Developers, Art Supervisers, Growth Hacker and more.Companies like Tagos, Digilogues, Seclure Technology, Whizkidz Media, 99Acres, Dijyo Spiritual Pendants, 91Springboard, Urbane Concepts Pvt Ltd and ADOBE.Powered by NASSCOM 10000 Startups and SHEREOS.IN.
The Design Revolution continues with another workshop on 30th-31st Oct, 2015 at 91Springboard, Gurgaon. With Co-Founders, CEO, Directors, Product Managers, Software Enigineers, Junior Software Developers, Art Supervisers, Growth Hacker and more.Companies like Tagos, Digilogues, Seclure Technology, Whizkidz Media, 99Acres, Dijyo Spiritual Pendants, 91Springboard, Urbane Concepts Pvt Ltd and ADOBE.Powered by NASSCOM 10000 Startups and SHEREOS.IN.
Ideum recently tested out a paper prototype both with Ideum staff and onsite at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles. To learn more about Ideum's Creative Services visit our website.
SproutLoud Boosts Integrated Direct Marketing Power for Distributed Marketers with New E-mail Release
Sunrise, FL – August 17, 2011 –SproutLoud, in partnership with ExactTarget, has added e-mail to its roster of integrated direct marketing programs for distributed marketers in its latest release, which also includes an improved user interface an expanded feature set.
The module works together seamlessly with SproutLoud’s direct mail and PURL (personalized URL) technology, enabling companies to develop branded cross media campaigns using a single application. It’s designed to handle many different types of campaigns, including individual orders, trigger based and drip marketing programs, and Auto Enroll ™ programs that use a single subscription to enlist participants in multi-touchpoint campaigns. Each type of campaign can be set up for acquisition or retention-based programs.
“We really want to offer the distributed marketing organizations that form our customer base the best range of integrated media options so they can test and optimize their marketing programs. Different markets respond best to different types of media, and we now offer brands and their local marketing partners the opportunity to reach their prospects and customers in the one their targets prefer,” stated Gary Ritkes, Managing Partner, Sales.
SproutLoud’s alliance with ExactTarget raises the response bar even higher, by providing clients the bandwidth, security and authentication processes to maximize delivery rates and ensure e-mail campaigns steer clear of SPAM filters to reach their intended targets.
“One of the key reasons companies partner with SproutLoud is the ability to maintain brand integrity across all of their local marketing programs,” Jared Shusterman, CEO and Managing Partner, commented. “ExactTarget’s existing methods and policies that meet SPAM requirements and ensure a company’s e-mail reputation and behavior is above reproach complements our goals as well as our clients’ interests.”
About SproutLoud
Headquartered in Sunrise, FL, SproutLoud helps companies manage their brands and messages in local-level marketing. SproutLoud's web-based Marketing Resource Management (MRM) application provides robust marketing features in an easy to use interface, enabling local marketers to access the materials they need in the media of their choice, customize them, and reach their target audience with brand-controlled messaging.
SproutLoud solutions adapt easily for any local network, including sales channels, franchises, retail locations, dealer networks, VAR Programs, field employees/offices, and affiliates. Their platform manages brand compliance, increases speed to market, automates manual tasks, and provides robust reporting, empowering marketers with the resources of national brands and making local marketing work smarter.
Contact: Raleigh Susskind
rsuskind@sproutloud.com
15431 S.W. 14th Street
Sunrise, FL 33326
Ph: 954.476.6211 x150