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You have to admire a job that allows you to make a bumble-bee/owl (a bumblowl?) fly around a mural merely by waving your finger... all while drinking beer.
This is an elaboration on my actionscript webcam motion detection experiments, built as an installation for the Inverge party hosted by North. The idea was to take motion detection and combine it with art in the form of digital drawing and 2d space in the form of a wall mural. The concept is to allow human interaction to affect physical space, freeing oneself from all traditional user interface. The application works by constantly monitoring a webcam, taking snapshots of each frame every millisecond. The pixels in the current frame are compared to pixels in the previous. The difference in brightness within each section determines whether or not motion had occurred in this area of the screen. If motion is detected the coordinates of a rectangular grid around said motion is recorded and the owl is ordered to go to that point. The line drawings begin and follow the owl recording a 'flight path'. A mask is drawn to prevent the owl and its drawing trail from going in front of some of the trees giving the mural a sense of dimension.
Thanks to the great Eric Natzke for the drawing inspiration and open source, and NORTH for being forward thinking enough to encourage digital experimentation.
To try a version of the experiment for yourself, go here: AS3 Motion Detection Drawing Installation. [webcam a must, obv]
i just LOVE this kind of human touch in user interfaces. really, who cares that the "massage" actually means "reconfiguring system board 4 in storage bank CXD"? go, flickr, go!
Is there anything that iPhone OS 3.0 software cannot do?!
I guess we will find out at WWDC tomorrow....?
It took me too long to figure out that the throttle for the water flow is hidden underneath the temperature control.
What’s possessing hotel shower UI designers?
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Google Finance's stock screener is a great example of Refining Search pattern. The tool allows user to search for stocks by using several different criteria: Average Price, Price Change, PE ratios, etc., and the user can easily add and remove search filters.
Things to notice:
-Sparklines, in this case histograms that indicate the weight proportions in each part of the range, are used. They help the user to refine the search.
-It is made easy to clear filters and start over.
-Results can be sorted.
-The number of results found is shown.
-In addition to filters a free text search is provided.
Source: www.google.com/finance/stockscreener
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What happens when seperate networks collide? Personal/Friends + Friends + Professional networks often do not share the same value systems.
When broadcasting social messages and life-streams, it is important for systems to separate between different communication levels in order to provide the correct groups with the correct information.
If this is not followed, it becomes a liability for the user. The case of Facebook is probably the foremost case study here.
caseorganic.com/wp/2009/02/search-more-options-%c2%b7-eve...
Each seat on Virgin America now includes a screen and keyboard with a special in-flight entertainment system that includes movies, TV, a live route map, seat-to-seat chat, etc. They really missed some strong opportunities for in-flight social networking and games but it's a promising start.
This is a view of the live routemap.
Part of my proposed redesign of JS Bin.
The idea here is that, when a user is typing, we replace buttons with tips about keyboard commands.
I’ve illustrated two approaches here: teaching the user a couple at a time or just always showing all of them.
The idea of grouping windows together as tabs in the title bar is a good one, but the implementation in Safari 4 is flawed. The two biggest issues I have:
1. The duplication of the close button. There is no need for a button to close all of the tabs in the window.
2. The "Create a new tab" button on the right side is completely unnecessary. There's no such thing as a new window button in Safari, right?
My idea is based around adding window grouping (AKA tabbing) to the OS and to have the close/minimize/zoom controls attach to the current tab. Of course, this idea is just as flawed since the behavior for minimize and zoom would be unpredictable.
Any ideas?
BBC: Tools for customising the page are hidden until the user needs them.
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back indoors
extensions: Weave Browser Sync, NoScript, Adblock Plus, Tree Style Tab, Multiple Tab Handler, Edit Cookies, Google Toolbar
The bookmark toolbar favicons are blank because Weave has just synchronized them from the server.
I just created this UI for a tiny little utility app I'm writing (which unsurprisingly lets you set up and customise Growl notifications for new mail in Microsoft Outlook 2011 Mac).
I think I've come full circle to enjoying the simplicity and cleanliness of this kind of standard-controls, readable prefs interface. I also really, really like options that are arranged in a visual hierarchy, are unambiguously worded, and can be read as a series of sentences (with suitably-worded popups etc interspersed through the text as required).
It would have been easy (in terms of motivation) to complicate this interface with rule-editors, sub-checkboxes and so forth, but it's just not necessary for the task. It's not perfect, but it's pretty usable.
Even if you don't want your prefs UI to look like this, at least sketch it this way first.
A new screen for the Day One Mac app update submitted for review today.
1.2 includes:
• Password
• Calendar
• Export
• 24-Hour
• Lion Support
The long-awaited Moto X is finally on sale in the US, and it’s something of a landmark smartphone.
Designed and built to reinvigorate the Motorola brand, it’s also bringing to bear the fruits of the company’s relationship with Google, which now owns Motorola Mobility outright. Sporting ...
Microchip Technology's PIC32 “MX1” and “MX2” MCUs are the smallest and lowest-cost PIC32 microcontrollers, and are the first PIC32s to feature dedicated audio and capacitive-sensing peripherals.
The Design Revolution spreads to Hyderabad. The first ever Dive Into User-Interface Design and UX workshop in the cybercity of India. Powered by NASSCOM 10000Startups and hosted at 91Springboard. Participants included Co-founders, Developers, Directors, Vice-Presidents, and IT, design, and tech geeks. From Olivo Health, Custom Furnish, Hitachi Consulting, Paradigm Creatives, Bradsol, and more. 25-26 April 2015. Nurtured by SHEROES India.
The table headers stay visible in the browser window as the user scrolls up and down a page to remind the user of what the columns in the table are.
Source: factfinder.census.gov/servlet/ADPTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=...
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Each seat on Virgin America now includes a screen and keyboard with a special in-flight entertainment system that includes movies, TV, a live route map, seat-to-seat chat, etc. They really missed some strong opportunities for in-flight social networking and games but it's a promising start.
This is an overview of the menu.
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Pretty? I suppose. But why, even after breaking the data down into three pages does the Classic practically require a loupe to read?
I had forgotten how much I liked the 4G's click wheel.
(The Classic's brightness is set to 70% here. The others are maxed out.)
A new web project begins to take shape with individual pages and functions defined by coloured sticky-notes. Next step; do a top-shot with the iPhone, sync with iPhoto, place picture into Adobe Illustrator as a positional guide then layer User Interface graphic symbols on top. This production method is fast and it works!
Number each element on the plan then create as individual pages in Voodoo Pad. Next, write a brief outline on each of the Voodoo Pad pages, describing the basic elements and functions of the page then add navigational links. You can export as HTML to create a quick walk-through which can be shared on a web-server.
Combine Voodoo page outlines and Illustrator elements in a PDF file. You are now ready to create wireframes in Illustrator or InDesign...
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