Web design has followed a long and windy road from it’s rather modest beginnings. Initially, the term “web designer,” described something much more akin to that of a graphic designer: a designer who concerns themselves with the presentation of text and pictures.
Plattform- und geräteübergreifende Angebote werden in Zukunft sehr relevant sein, weil viele Anwender in unterschiedlichen Situationen zukünftig verschiedene digitale Endgeräte verwenden und die Gerätelandschaft immer dynamischer und fragmentierter wird. Mittelfristig werden vier bestimmte Endgeräte im Fokus stehen: Smartphones, Tablet-PCs, Laptops oder Desktop-PCs und internetfähige TV-Geräte.○ | MULTISCREEN EXPERIENCE – Prinzipien und Muster für das Informationsmanagement in der Digitalen Gesellschaft (Beta)
Because the primary input method of the iPad is a single piece of multitouch glass, developers have incredible flexibility to design unique user interfaces. It’s hard to appreciate the variety of UIs though, since turning the screen off removes virtually all evidence of them. To spotlight these differences, I looked at the only fragments that remain from using an app: fingerprints.
The intent of this project was to create animism in an object, with the use of programmable BlinkM® LEDs. We were interested in books because, as a set of objects, they still had a degree of individuality which we wanted to bring forward. By accentuating the character that the titles already exuded, we were able to develop each personality in unique ways, furthering the books from their common mass–produced ancestry. This experiment came close to becoming a psychoanalysis of an object–exploring themes of ego, vulnerability, intellect, and self-awareness.
If you sit and watch people use an iPhone there’s a mistake made often and reliably: They hit the home button when they mean to just go back to the app’s main screen. Going home has heavy consequences—to recover you’ve got to find that app again, sit through its splash screen, and fiddle the app to where it was before. The home button is the grunt-and-touch control of physical affordances. While iconically simple, the one bit of information it lets you indicate is too little.
...If this was a sugar bowl, it would require the use of a spoon in order to dispense the sugar. This means many people would be unable to fight the common human faux pax of taking the 1st serving with a dry spoon and their second or third with a wet spoon. Even when a dedicated spoon is offered for such a bowl, it is either ignored or used outright, made wet...
I’ve started a list of essays and articles that I feel are important touchstones and reference points for interaction designers. These are not books (my Top Ten Essential Interaction Design Books), book chapters, or presentations (list to come), and I’ve certainly left out some classic (and not-yet-classic) articles. The list, as the best lists often are, is idiosyncratic. But please offer your own suggestions for additions in the comments.
Wie ein aktuell aufgetauchter Patentantrag belegt, arbeitet Apple an einer Benutzerauthentifizierung über Gesichts- und Stimmerkennung oder gar den Herzrhytmus. Sollte diese Technik irgendwann bei iOS-Geräten zum Einsatz kommen, so könnte man diese darüber beispielsweise vor unbefugten Zugriff schützen.
