OmniGraffle Wireframe Stencils
Massive thanks to KONIGI for releasing version 3 of their free OmniGraffle Stencil set.
Large array of stencils featuring the following:- Buttons, Colour picker, Form elements, Calendars, Error and Confirmations, Video players, Ad units, Browser chrome iPhone, Safari and more.
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- Wireframe
MobileHCI 2008 Presentations
This years MobileHCI 2008 conference was held in Holland, Amsterdam. For those like me who couldn't attend six presentation decks have been made available:
- Text input for mobile devices by Scott MacKenzie
- Mobile GUIs and Mobile Visualization by Patrick Baudisch
- Understanding Mobile User Experience by Mirjana Spasojevic
- Context-Aware Communication and Interaction by Albrecht Schmidt
- Haptics, audio output and sensor input in mobile HCI by Stephen Brewster
- Camera-based interaction and interaction with public displays by Michael Rohs
- Filed under:
- Mobile
- Mobile
- Mobile HCI
- Mobile User Experience
- Mobile Web Design
Vista you start me up!
So some of us have moved to Windows Vista, a few teething problems but are please with some usability improvements.
For instance the most obvious to note is that you no longer have to start in order to 'shut down'.
As a user of Windows XP you had to select the 'Start' button to shut down the machine, which always seemed a bit of a misnomer to me. However Vista improves on this by only showing the icon button.
Windows XP - Start it up then Shut it down
Windows Vista - Shut down
Although I still found myself hunting the 'shut down' option and inadvertently selecting the globally recognised symbol for stand-by.
Tag cloud filter
Tag clouds are great to visually indicate the popularity or frequency of a word. But as tag clouds increase in size so it takes more time to find the content tag you're looking for.
The efficiency of the tag cloud can be improved by applying colour ranges to match word frequency, as well as better use of text size. The article ("In search of the perfect Tag Cloud" looks at a number of sites with varying techniques.
Another way to quickly view tags by popularity is to filter them by a selected weight. Using the slider interface we can let the user quickly adjust the displayed tags.
Using a number of popular scripting libraries here is an example of our Tag Cloud filter.
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- Filed under:
- UI Design Patterns
- Interaction design
- JavaScript
- Prototype
- Slider
- Tag Cloud
- UI design
- Widgets
