Archive for the 'User Interface' Category



Required iPhone Posting

05Jul07

I would be remiss if I didn’t take some note of the block­buster iPhone intro­duc­tion this past week. Many peo­ple have already grown tired of this sub­ject (and I love Dar­ren Barefoot’s hilar­i­ous take on iphatigue.com), but now that this much-hyped device is out in the mar­ket (at least in the US), there might be […]

The Future, as it Looked from 1987

03Jun07

An oldie but goodie has resur­faced on YouTube, at least for peo­ple who were in Boston in 1987 and attended Mac­World Expo (or were fol­low­ers of Apple Com­puter, as it was called back then). At that event, then CEO John Scul­ley showed a ‘The Knowl­edge Nav­i­ga­tor’, a short film pro­duced by The Ken­wood Group for […]

Surface: Microsoft’s Sexy Coffee Table

31May07

I’ll bet that there are days at the Microsoft cam­pus when some groups are work­ing on a super-secret project that they just wish they could tell the world about it. In fact, keep­ing their secret must drive them crazy. Espe­cially when some other com­pany comes out with a sim­i­lar project to the one they were […]