MetaFilter posts tagged with GUI

10/GUI

Plutor — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:22:07 -0800

Since SRI and Xerox invented the GUI and the mouse in the late 1970s, technology has leaped forward, but the way we interact with our computers has stood still. "10/GUI aims to bridge this gap by rethinking the desktop to leverage technology in an intuitive and powerful way."

The Wheels on the Bus Dial 206...

Smarson — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 07:21:33 -0800

Seattle bus riders rejoice! From the Univ. of WA comes One Bus Away which answers the eternal public transit question "where the hell is my freaking bus??" With six flavors of awesome, you can get real-time bus arrival info. via phone, website, SMS, an iPhone-optimized webpage, or for those us still rocking the un-smart phones there's even a text-only webpage available.

10 Futuristic User Interfaces

soundofsuburbia — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 02:33:33 -0800

10 Futuristic User Interfaces. [...] we present 10 recent developments in the field of user experience design. Most techniques may seem very futuristic, but some of them are already reality. And in fact, they are extremely impressive. Keep in mind: they can become ubiquitous in the next years.

Visualizing your email as microbes.

Rumple — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:44:10 -0800

It's not a bug, it's a feature: Carolin Horn has designed Anymails, which represents your email messages and folders as micro-organisms. The morphology of the individual organisms and their behaviour within colonies imparts information about the state of your email. You can view QT movies of the application in action (1, 2), download her thesis, and download the Anymails code itself. See some of her other work here (predominantly in German). via Madame Martin, the "French Metafilter".

GUIs in Spaaaaace

blahblahblah — Wed, 02 May 2007 11:49:50 -0800

Computer interfaces from science fiction. Some of these interfaces (such as Minority Report) may be close to reality, while others are are being built by fans, and many more are just bad ideas. And, for reality's sake, there are also references to Windows in science fiction. See also this presentation about biometrics in science fiction [note: mp4 movie, the presentation starts about 20% in, and features Leprechaun 4: Leprechauns in space.].

PS. Your Favorite Operating System Sucks

fenriq — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 19:01:53 -0800

The Evolution of the Desktop 1984-2007
My oh my, how far we've come.

How long until BARTmonster?

fatllama — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 19:18:35 -0800

Seattle Bus Monster : a project that combines the resources of Google Maps, realtime public transit data provided by the Intelligent Transportation Systems at the University of Washington, and King County's online bus trip planner and does it right. It is ~~refreshing~~ exhilarating to see an application designed so well. It doesn't seem to work on Safari yet. Links to project's blog and summary of features.

A history of the GUI

madamjujujive — Sat, 07 May 2005 21:09:46 -0800

A history of the GUI from the 1930s through the 90s. Also see Vannevar Bush's visionary 1945 essay As we May Think, which helped to set the wheels in motion. (Check out the Ars Technica discussion for good related links and commentary.) (via The Sideshow)

GUI Olympics!

caution live frogs — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 08:48:23 -0800

GUI Olympics! several corporate sponsors (ATI, nVidia, and others) are offering up $15,000 in prize money for the best GUI skin any designer can come up with for a few applications. while i think it's great to push for newer and better user interfaces, who do so many of the designs seem to be pushing complexity over useability? wouldn't a better use of a GUI design prize be to encourage people to improve on a design rather than make it unintelligible? maybe the people pushing the designs need to take this quiz.

the luxury of ignorance

reklaw — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 13:39:21 -0800

"We are now deep in the trackless swamps created by thoughtless, feckless UI design — full of glitz and GUI, signifying nothing." In The Luxury of Ignorance, Eric Raymond attempts to set up a network printer in Linux.

GUI icons, ads, and historical miscellanea

madamjujujive — Sat, 27 Mar 2004 05:12:00 -0800

guidebook is chock full of interesting historical GUI miscellanea, including a chart depicting the evolution of component icons in various operating systems from 1984 to the present, a 39-page 1984 Apple ad, and a 1981 article on the Xerox Alto Computer. (via Buzz).

GUIdebook: Graphical User Interface gallery

soundofsuburbia — Wed, 17 Mar 2004 06:47:09 -0800

GUIdebook: Graphical User Interface gallery. Welcome to guidebook, a website dedicated to preserving and showcasing as many Graphical User Interfaces as possible.

Steal These Buttons

brownpau — Wed, 21 May 2003 13:57:15 -0800

So I guess it started when Jeremy Hedley made these buttons, dissatisfied as he was with the W3 Validator's default icons. Or was it Winer's white-on-orange button that did it, and the ensuing variations that appeared? In any case, we now have pixely buttons for just about everything, scripts to make even more, and GUI frontends to those scripts for fun and ease. And if you want to be kind to their servers; here's the source if you have Image::GD.

It's all GUI! Ewwww.

WolfDaddy — Fri, 07 Feb 2003 12:29:17 -0800

Wine, Chicago, and Bob. Sounds like a dangerous combination, but fortunately the GUI Gallery keeps 'em separated for your safety. Via my good friend wysinger.com

crunchland — Fri, 03 May 2002 10:15:56 -0800

Nethack for the rest of us. Ok, all you Nethack purists... sit on your hands for this one. Finally someone has come out with a graphical interface for the venerable ASCII game. Isometric, "Diablo" style -- Maybe it lacks some of the charm and character of the text version. At least I can see what the damn boulder and bear trap looks like. Windows/DirectX only.

otherchaz — Tue, 05 Feb 2002 18:36:07 -0800

Not even the duckie escapes co-optation No one disputes the XP GUI is cool. "Good Artists create, Great Artists STEAL, and Real Artists Ship" [link from nofuncharlie]

costas — Tue, 20 Nov 2001 06:57:13 -0800

While the father of Visual Basic tells Microsoft to: "abandon the browser", a multitude of researchers are looking into next-generation interfaces (links via Joel on Software and Wired respectively). Is the software industry even close to moving on to a new paradigm?

skallas — Mon, 27 Aug 2001 01:17:14 -0800

Two months from illiterate to MP3 trading hax0rz. Very cool social experiment showing how easy today's GUIs are to use, especially for kids.

riffola — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 08:44:29 -0800

Graphical User Interface Timeline showcases the road to Aqua and it's clone XP. [via Plasticbag.org]

m.polo — Tue, 05 Dec 2000 09:45:13 -0800

Screen Wars, a decent stab by Stephen Levy from Newsweek/MSNBC at summarizing the changes afoot in desktop OS GUIs. Credit where credit is due for some notable Apple alums; more faith than is justified in .NET.

baylink — Mon, 07 Aug 2000 12:26:53 -0800

Ok, here comes the firestorm. Joel on Software has some very good things to say -- though, like most user-interface-design mavens, I think about 50% of the time that he hasn't comprehended what the problem really is... but in this piece, he's wrong.

efader — Sat, 22 Jan 2000 16:16:29 -0800

Apple mergers with amazon.com Well not really but why is everyone copying the tab based interface... it is ugly, not expandable and assumes the end user is a complete moron.

mathowie — Thu, 11 Nov 1999 19:45:07 -0800

Wow, check Amazon's new holiday look. They've added even more new product lines (home improvement, software, and video games). How many folder tabs can they stuff into that navigation bar?

tdecius — Wed, 27 Oct 1999 18:55:22 -0800

Tired of killing those processes the old fashioned way? Get this Doom GUI, and never do a kill -9 without your BFG again.