MetaFilter posts tagged with userinterface

Upload this to your alien spacecraft.

seanyboy — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:36:34 -0800

This man makes the user interfaces you see in films. (Video)
Bonus: Top 10 Worst Portrayals of Technology in Film

Adobe UI Gripes

nthdegx — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:28:34 -0800

D-Touch Drum Machine

mhjb — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:11:52 -0800

Print your own DIY papercraft drum machine. Webcam + paper template + free software = drum machine with tangible interface. [via] "The d-touch drum machine is a drum machine with a tangible user interface: it is controlled by placing and arranging physical objects on an A4 piece of paper, which we call the interactive area. The interactive area is arranged in 11 rows, each row corresponds to a different sound, as indicated by the text labels. The horizontal position of the blocks on the interactive area determines the timing of the sound trigger within the loop." For wider applications there's the Trackmate project. Trackmate.sourceforge.net is "an open source initiative to create an inexpensive, do-it-yourself tangible tracking system. The Trackmate Tracker allows any computer to recognize tagged objects and their corresponding position, rotation, and color information when placed on a surface. " Further reading: heapsa links at wikipedia; related: previously.

Do we want to look below the surface this time?

Memo — Wed, 30 May 2007 00:30:30 -0800

Surface. A multi-user touch table. How curious that this happens some time after Apple revealed their own multitouch interface. More info here, here and here.

No, not hand protection for Objectivists.

brundlefly — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 14:04:04 -0800

Atlas Gloves: A DIY hand gesture interface for Google Earth.

Metrocard Vending Machine UI critique

riffola — Tue, 07 Jan 2003 07:41:41 -0800

Metrocard Vending Machine UI critique. If you've been to New York City in the last few years, then you might be familiar with the MTA's big silver vending machines in the subways. For those living here it's almost second nature by now. The Windows NT based touch screen UI is really not too bad. Most tourists may opt for a One-day Fun Pass ($4), while the locals already know what to pick. MTA also places posters all over indicating changes to the vending machines, and initially even had posters explaining the various options.

mathowie — Wed, 17 Jul 2002 13:56:23 -0800

Amazon Light is project powered by amazon's SOAP API, with a design and interaction reminiscent of Google's clean no-frills approach. Pretty cool and clean way to use the site (without annoying popups or gold box offers).

pascal — Wed, 11 Jul 2001 11:17:33 -0800

Modern computing born... film at 11.
"On December 9, 1968, Douglas C. Engelbart and the group of 17 researchers working with him in the Augmentation Research Center at Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, CA, presented a 90-minute live public demonstration of the online system, NLS, they had been working on since 1962. The public presentation was a session in the of the Fall Joint Computer Conference held at the Convention Center in San Francisco, and it was attended by about 1,000 computer professionals. This was the public debut of the computer mouse. But the mouse was only one of many innovations demonstrated that day, including hypertext, object addressing and dynamic file linking, as well as shared-screen collaboration involving two persons at different sites communicating over a network with audio and video interface."

efader — Sat, 08 Apr 2000 20:58:47 -0800

Why tab based interfaces suck This site finally fell into interface hell. Originally they used tabs as navigation and still are now... BUT it doesn't work... Watch... every ecommerce company that copied its interface will also fall into the same interface hell... The others include ebags.com, urbanfetch and more....