User Experience: quotes
Inspirational to say the least.
Getting used to the blue legos already.
Ok Adobe, let me get this straight. There are millions of sites using Flash, so you choose to showcase “Bang Bros. HD”. Classy. By the way, there goes my childhood. Oh yeah, and Farmville. Farmville’s big, so it drives your point home. Oh, Adobe, how devlishily witty of you! On the other hand, do you know what millions upon millions of flies will have for lunch today? I bet those blue legos are starting to sound a little better all of a sudden, huh? Thought so.
Here’s Apple’s Jonny Ive showing off the iPad. You really have to see this thing in use to understand how it differs from an iPhone while being similar. It will also help you understand how in 10 years the idea of a “laptop” will seem old-fashioned, like a fax machine. It’s a computer designed from the ground-up to be used with a touch-interface: no shoehorning touch interfaces like Microsoft does with Windows. It will be interesting.
Reinventing desktop human-computer interaction. This video examines the benefits and limitations inherent in current mouse-based and window-oriented interfaces, the problems facing other potential solutions, and visualizes my proposal for a completely new way of interacting with desktop computers. There’s more information at http://10gui.com .
