Every Desktop Design Has To Go Finger-Friendly

TOUCH HAS LANDED ON THE DESKTOP. A whole new category of touch devices is flooding the consumer market in coordination with the release of Windows 8: touchscreen laptops and tablet/keyboard combos. These new hybrid combinations of touch and keyboard create a new ergonomic environment... and fresh demands on designers. http://globalmoxie.com/blog/desktop-touch-design.shtml

Phone size comparison

Show the actual size of a phone on your screen! Adjust the settings in the top bar so they match your monitor (try to be as precise as possible). You can use offset to increase or decrease the size of all the phones. To add a phone, simply select one from the selection box and to remove it, click the remove button underneath it. When you hit "Toggle Screens", every phone will show the same picture, cropped to the resolution of the screen. More candy = higher resolution

Phone Size - Phone size comparison made easy!

iPad 2 Showcases

In Vorbereitung aufs iPad 2: ‘Geführte Touren’ zu GarageBand, iMovie und iBooks – iPhoneBlog.de

Easy Baking Touchscreen

gorenje iChef Easy Baking Touchscreen - Core77

Fingerprints on touch interface as interaction pattern

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.

Design Language News

HP Touchpad

Read more: [update] HP setzt auf ‘webOS’ und zeigt zwei Smartphones sowie ein Tablet – iPhoneBlog.de

Kno Textbook Tablet

Changing Education Forever from Kno Tablet on Vimeo.

Kno Textbook Tablet

Wie funktioniert ein Touchscreen

7 Minuten Video: “Die Sendung mit der Maus” erklärt den Touchscreen | ifun.de/iPhone :: Alles zum iPhone

Und nächste Woche erklärt euch Peter Lustig den Wii-Controller ;-)

Table Connect for iPhone

Table Connect for iPhone

WeTab on Facebook

Das WeTab zerfleischt sich selbst auf Facebook

Und:

Ihr dachtet zum WeTab sei schon alles gesagt? Der Chef von Neofonie wird verdächtigt bei Amazon sein eigenes WeTab in den Himmel zu loben – als Kunde unter falschem Namen. Eine nicht gesetzte Privacy-Einstellung könnte dem unbekannten Autor zum Verhängnis werden.
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Touch

Touch Research 0: Class and Presentations

Touch Research 0: Class and Presentations

View more presentations from Harald Felgner.

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Touch Research 1: Inspiration and History

Touch Research 1: Inspiration and History

View more presentations from Harald Felgner.

Editions Volumiques

Here are the first pieces of les évolutions dynamiques following research on both volume and interactivity, playfully mixing paper and computation. By allowing interactivity and gameplay in the page (for example with the Duckette project) or between the pages (in The book that turns its own pages, or Labyrinthe), we try to bring new life to paper. We then pushed physical behavior to paper and ink (the book that disapears). There, the paper is no longer only the frame for representation, but at the same time the field of a real physical experience. We also played with the volume and perspective of book and content (paradoxales, Meeting-Zombies). And then, we tried to combine paper with this little computer-object almost of us all carry everywhere: our cell phone (the night of the living dead pixels, (i) pirates).

Videos:
http://www.volumique.com/blog/?p=31

View the projects: editions_volumiques

Pen Touch

Touch Usability: Manual Deskterity: Pen Touch [CHI 2010]

joojoo

More infos at: joojoo

WePad Interface Demo

Sorry, best off:
- Die Software ist am Starten
- Die Applikation sind wirklich am Laufen alle
- Wir haben nicht nur eine Navigation auf der rechten Seite - sondern wir haben auch eine Navigation auf der linken Seite. (Wow)
- Ich kann hier auf einen Knopf drücken
- Querformat ist besser als Hochformat?
- Wir sind ja nicht so wie Apple
- Ah doch es kommt
- Das ist eher, das Otto so langsam ist

Besser kann man die Unterschiede zwischen Apple und WePad nicht aufzeigen. Bottom Up vs. Top Down.

Mehr dazu bei auch bei Gerrit.

Read Article: WePad Interface Demo & Hands-on mit dem (fast) finalen Gerät

Comparing E-Readers

How Do E-Readers Stack Up With iPad In The Mix?
- iPad
- Kindle 2
- Kindle DX
- Nook
- Reader Daily Edition
- Que
Comparing E-Readers

ExoPC Slate = WePad?

Gleiches Aussehen, gleiche Spec., gleicher Hersteller?
Der ExoPC Slate

Camangi WebStation

The Camangi WebStation is the world’s first 7-inch handheld device that runs Google Android. The Camangi WebStation brings a new way to enjoy the Internet and your entertainment media all under one stylish Internet Tablet.

Camangi WebStation – Your solution for fun, entertainment, and recreation

UI on the ipad

Examples of:
- Video with Splitscreens
- Touchscreen Dropdowns (Pop-Over-Windows)
- Tab an hold
- Semi-transparent Pages
- Text-Zoom
- Marvel Comic Reading
- Gestures like Pinch, Zooming,...

via iPad-Verkauf in den USA hat begonnen

Another one:

Touchscreen-Designing with finger paints

Touchscreen interfaces would be easier to use if we designed them with finger paints. We stop “designing” this way the day we graduate from kindergarten, but think about it. Can you be sure a button will be large enough for a user to push? Will her hand cover up anything important? We wouldn’t need to ask questions like these if we had designed the touchscreen with finger paints. It would be self-evident.

Guifx : Put Your Hands Up To Test Usability: "design with finger paints"