MetaFilter posts tagged with interface

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fatllama — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:54:33 -0800

Snyderphonics Manta

Señor Pantalones — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:46:31 -0800

The Snyderphonics Manta . With a few exceptions like the rare Buchla Thunder and the ZenDrum, computer musicians were stuck with controllers disguised as traditional instruments, rolling their own, or using grids of generic rubber pads. The Manta, in the spirit of the Serge TKB's capacitance touchplate construction, attempts to do something new, and people are already doing interesting things with it. Videos: polyphonic keys, sequencer, technique, and lots more

on your third broken window

plexi — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:30:43 -0800

Aurora is a concept video exploring one possible future user experience for the Web.

Hearts of the WorldWideWeb

Kronos_to_Earth — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:55:55 -0800

"Pulse", a project by Markus Kison, "...is a live visualisation of the recent emotional expressions written on the private weblogs of blogger.com. These emotional expressions are parsed according to a list of synonyms and transform a physical shapeshifting object...." (QT video) (via) "Ich wachsen" ('I grow'; scroll down, click on image under 'Demo Applet' to run...) and "Touched Echo" are among other projects by Markus Kison, ("Charming Burkha", previously, last link)

Zoomii.

chunking express — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:51:57 -0800

Zoomii. An interesting interface for Amazon. From the about page:

Because I love bookstores. Spending afternoons wandering the shelves. Happening across great books I didn't even know existed. But it's an experience I never found online. Online bookstores are wonderful. They've got amazing prices, huge selections, and they're open all the time. If you know exactly what you want, they're perfect. But somehow I kept coming back to the bookstore just to browse. Zoomii is my attempt to bring online as much of the real bookstore experience as possible.

Compose. (No ideas but in things) Invent!

tepidmonkey — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:23:52 -0800

No Ideas But In Things is a photoblog of dials, buttons, knobs, levers, handles, switches, and other pieces of user interface design.

Not All Black & White

Gyan — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:24:50 -0800

Using Color In Information Display Graphics - a resource from NASA, "intended to help designers who are not color experts find usable color designs" [via] ~~Sounds~~Looks like a good jumping point to point out great and not-so-great examples of the colored web.

Problem Code 1-1: Piranha plant clogging warp pipe

designbot — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:49:57 -0800

User interface design so epically bad you need a strategy guide to defeat it. Presenting The Legend of FacilityFocus.

Best hack ever.

Pastabagel — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:47:41 -0800

We've all seen the multitouch interfaces of Jeff Han, Apple, Tactiva, and Microsoft. Now, fellow mefite you brings us the ultimate guerrilla hack - the $2 multitouch pad. [via mefi projects]

"We were just trying to write songs about prostitutes and lesbians, that's all."

Blazecock Pileon — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:25:09 -0800

Introduced to Western culture by the Beatles in their single Norwegian Wood, the sitar has featured prominently in North Indian classical music for centuries. Princeton-based computer scientist Ajay Kapur updates the instrument with his ESitar, an audio and video controller that uses gesture input (PDF) and machine learning algorithms to facilitate joining the computer with Ajay in his sitar performance. Undergraduate engineering students at the University of Pennsylvania work from the other direction, building RAVI-bot, an award-winning, self-playing robotic sitar (YouTube) programmed to generate music from classical Raga scales and melodies all on its own. For those in the Philadelphia area, be sure to check out a live performance of RAVI-bot at the local Klein Art Gallery.

Rethinking Software Look&Feel

Gyan — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 23:14:35 -0800

Magic Ink - Information Software and the Graphical Interface

Touch Me Baby One More Time

Blazecock Pileon — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:08:49 -0800

Jeff Han, shows advances in his multitouch interfaces a year later. YT video 1. YT video 2.

You think about sex. We do the rest.

unSane — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:13:54 -0800

Never mind the monkey! Wait til the open-dildonics community implements it. Some links NSFW, duh.

mapping sound and color

nickyskye — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 10:33:53 -0800

Color of My Sound. Choose a color of a sound or song and see how others have voted with their comments. Add your own audio files. (more)

File it, pile it.

marvin — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:00:49 -0800

BumpTop is based on the long standing idea of piles as a desktop use metaphor, this seems to bring it to life at last. Will this sort out your desktop?

Wiring an Intelligent World

digaman — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 10:16:54 -0800

What is ubiquitous computing or "ubicomp," other than a geeky buzz-phrase for smart objects, "things that think"? In his provocative new book Everyware (freely excerpted here and here), interface designer and MeFite Adam Greenfield provides a thoughtful meditation on one of the digital world's most resonant hopes for the future, encompassing everything from pervasive RFID-chipping, Orwellian surveillance, and a humbly practical magic wand to a "coming age of calm technology."

Touch Me Baby

dbiedny — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 18:58:16 -0800

This very cool multi-input touchscreen is an amazing example of potential human-computer interfaces and is not the same thing as the very cool Lemur device marketed in the US by Cycling 74. It really makes you realize that there's a whole new level of graphics, animation, 3D, music and control technology yet to be explored. Fascinating stuff.

iTunes, Brushed Metal. Lunch in this town again.

Tlogmer — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 21:45:37 -0800

The iTunes 5 Announcement From the Perspective of an Anthropomorphized Brushed Metal User Interface Theme.

"Form follows data"

fatllama — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 19:55:37 -0800

Information Aesthetics is a weblog of experiments in visualization: a power cord that glows as one draws power, a crocheted Lorenz manifold, a live display of a computer thinking about chess, a color-changing flower that detects nearby wifi. To be sure, there are lots of old favorites here but probably some new ones as well.

DONTCLICK.IT - Interface Experiment

signal — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 16:15:53 -0800

dontclick.it : what would you do if somebody stole your mouse button? Yes, it’s flash, and it’s annoying, but that’s the point.

Look ma, no mouse!

KS — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 23:15:36 -0800

Myron Krueger began his pioneering work in interactive art in 1969. He was one of the first to explore the aesthetics of interactivity with his "responsive environments." While preparing a talk that included a reminiscence of Krueger demoing Videoplace in the 80s, I was surprised he'd not yet merited even a stub in the Wikipedia. While that may eventually motivate me to register and start the page, for now, I will just share some links. [more inside, including videos]

The Bushy Tree

carter — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 08:28:40 -0800

A clickable genealogy charting the lineage of visual interactive computing systems and user interfaces, by Bruce Damer. Some quirky/broken links, but plenty of interesting stuff there, too.

Baaaa! Mooooo!

i_cola — Mon, 06 Oct 2003 06:21:24 -0800

The Museum of English Rural Life which includes the INTERnet Farm And Countryside Explorer (INTERFACE).

jcterminal — Mon, 25 Jun 2001 11:33:53 -0800

Damn, your media player is ugly. You should fix it. This site has one of the best collections of skins for various programs I have ever seen under one URL. They almost make WinMedia worth it.

holloway — Wed, 11 Apr 2001 03:43:18 -0800

"You are about to activate your first gesture command in Opera. A gesture command is activated by pressing the right mouse button, and while holding it down, performing a simple movement with the mouse, and then releasing the button"... such as left going back a page, or down opening a new window. Aliens bless gesture interfaces, and Molyneux.