Archive for March, 2007

Navigating Data Quickly and Easily

26Mar07

Infos­thet­ics points out another great UI demo. Moritz Ste­faner, a User Inter­face Design researcher at the Uni­ver­sity of Pots­dam has cre­ated what he calls an ‘Elas­tic List’, which is a way of brows­ing data that has mul­ti­ple facets or parts to it. In this exam­ple, you can quickly located win­ners of any Nobel Prize by […]

Design Gems from Moscow (with love?)

22Mar07

Through the usual way that one stum­bles upon some­thing on the Inter­net (by…stumbling upon it), I found the web site of the Art Lebe­dev stu­dio, who have become known because of a break­through key­board that has been talked about (and wished for) for quite some time. The key­board has struck a chord (pun intended) with […]

What’s the Best UI for Twitter?

14Mar07

I’ve become fas­ci­nated with the new web appli­ca­tion called Twit­ter. It’s a way of sim­ply and tersely updat­ing oth­ers on your sta­tus: This makes it kind of like a cross between a blog, instant mes­sag­ing and per­haps SMS (cell phone text mes­sag­ing). Twit­ter is like a blog, because it broad­casts your thoughts, moods, impres­sions, and […]