Gestures
Again, a thorough article by Lukas Mathis, this time on complex gestures in touch interfaces.
He points out that once a gesture becomes so complex that it doesn’t resemble any real world action associated with the task anymore, it’s not much better then a CLI.
In the next months and years, defining how complex touch interactions are done will be a major war zone for the Human-Computer-Interface field.
Maybe that’s something Apple sees too and tries to define from the very beginning. Since this is very much about UX, I’m glad Apple is leading the charge here. Still, it will be interesting to see how this unfolds, as we are once again on unknown terrain, not paving cow paths anymore.
Google Prediction API
A developers magic 8-Ball. May still produce interesting results.
Although it makes me wary to trust yet another set of data to the great google machina, it is an interesting opportunity to use all the experience and know how google gained in evaluating data.
Possibilities afforded by such technical opportunities may actually one day become more then just hapless sprawls into the direction of the semantic web.
First Person User Interfaces
Combines most of my late posts about future ux into a handy presentation. So, either this stuff is glaringly obvious, or I think like a Yahoo bigwig… :)
Jesse Schell (@jesseschell, former Disney Imagineer, game developer and professor at Carnegie Mellon university talks about “Design Outside the Box”.
Although this talk is already six months old (which, by internet-time, means 2 years) we only now begin to see a more widespread pondering of concepts like FPIs, game mechanic oriented social networks (like foursquare and gowalla) and augmented reality applications trying to connect the real world and the virtual world in interesting ways.
I think his depiction of the future may be a bit black and white, but it’s visionary and in many ways spot on.
Understand the Web
I totally agree with @benward’s perspective on the recent discussion about web apps vs. native apps, started by @joehewitt.
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