A transmission from the deep south.
A discourse on the process of designing for real people, from Joshua Porter and Joshua Brewer. I love seeing this sort of project built on Tumblr, and Brewer has included some sweet design details, including the 1–52 navigation in the header, linking to articles tagged for each week.
A conceptual video for collaborative research project Mag+, initiated by Bonnier R&D, into the experience of reading magazines on handheld digital devices. Rather than introducing any sort of radical new UI paradigm, the concept relies on a minimalist yet typographically rich approach that mixes the best of print and screen interaction on a tablet-sized device.
iA has made available its entire 17-page (paid) pitch document for the redesign of Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger in a detailed article discussing the proposed solution. The UX-led approach, while conceptually and aesthetically strong, ultimately failed to win over the client. Some beautiful typography (Frutiger New and Frutiger Serif) and bold ideas in there though: I quite like the concept of article keywords highlighted in blue for easy scanning of the paper’s title page. (via Inky)
Following extensive testing, Joe Leech and Fiz Yazdi conclude that users do scroll beyond the fold in the vast majority of cases, and that cramming all of the content above this imaginary line might actually have the opposite effect:
The surprising thing we learnt was that actually having less above the fold (one large content block as opposed to 2 smaller ones) encouraged exploration below the fold.
I’m hearing HTC in response to Geoff Teehan’s iPhone Home Screen Concept but I’m seeing a more refined and Apple-esque take on that interface. I’d much prefer to see this prior to unlocking the phone rather than the wasted space we have now. (via Andrew Wilkinson)
Interface design evolution of TapTapTap’s Convert app for iPhone. Incredible the number of iterations that were tried before settling on a final approach. (via the app’s designer, Wolfgang Bartelme)
A lightweight UI library for jQuery with tabs, tooltips, expose, overlay, scrollable and flashembed — all under 6Kb. (via David Kaneda)
Hi, the Human interface, by Multitouch Barcelona. Michel Gondry would be proud! (via Darren Wood)
The company responsible for creating the “future user interfaces” for such films as Minority Report and The Island. They develop using a mix of Adobe Flash, the AIR runtime and pre-rendered videos from After Effects, then deploy with head tracking, multi-touch panels and projection. Their latest project was the 360º environment seen on the bridge of J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek. (via Tim Dawson)
The digital poster for Wil Shipley’s talk on iPhone design (April 23, Cupertino) shows off the beautiful UI in his upcoming Delicious Library app.
I like the way his designers have used standard UI widgets but given them a custom woodgrain texture. Shipley has said the app will be a free viewer that syncs with the desktop version of Delicious Library.
Written and designed by Matthew Buchanan. Colophon. Please give credit. Email
