MetaFilter posts tagged with interfaces

History Of The Button

jack_mo — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:42:31 -0800

History of the Button, a weblog devoted to 'tracing the history of interaction design through the history of the button, from flashlights to websites and beyond'. This presentation [4.5MB .pdf] provides a quick-fire pictorial history of the things we push to do stuff.

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?

Augmented Maps

signal — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 17:38:20 -0800

Augmented Maps: dynamic, paper-based displays.

hmgovt — Mon, 20 May 2002 07:16:43 -0800

An astonishingly obvious advance in interface design Your mobile phone's keyboard has been rendered obsolete by this inspired rethinking of buttons and the spaces between them. The manifacturer's home page is here

grant — Sun, 14 Nov 1999 09:25:19 -0800

What will future interfaces look like? Steven Johnson, the author of Interface Culture, asked this question of a few presumably knowing souls. There are some interesting points regarding the interaction, rather than the interface in this oh-too-short article.

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.