Tag Archive | "User Interface"
Alleged Windows Mobile 7 UI looks strangely familiar
The following snapshots reveal a Windows Mobile UI re-design that was reportedly planned for Windows Mobile 6.5, but for whatever reason, was subsequently pushed back to Windows Mobile 7. Call us crazy, but there’s something oddly familiar about these photos. via PocketNow
Continue reading...Live demo of how Expose on the iPhone might work [Video]
Friday, October 16, 2009
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Check out this video demo of how Apple might implement Expose on the iPhone, should they ever choose to go down that route. It all looks pretty slick, but it might be a solution a problem that most people don’t think they have.
Continue reading...Expose and Cover Flow multitasking for the iPhone – Concept Videos
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
There have been some discussions lately on how to improve navigating through the iPhone when you have pages upon pages of applications. I’m of the mind that sifting through apps on the iPhone is pretty simple and straightforward as is, but that doesn’t mean I’m not willing to check out new ideas. And on that [...]
Continue reading...Fixing the iPhone homescreen, a.k.a Springboard
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Bruce Tognazzini was one of the first Apple employees, having been hired by Steve Jobs and Jeff Raskin in 1978 and remaining in their employ until 1992. Tognazzini might not be the most familiar name to Apple fans, but his work during his time spent at Apple continue to influence Apple design decisions today. Tognazzini [...]
Continue reading...Activating single application mode in Snow Leopard without using Terminal
Thursday, October 8, 2009
When Steve Jobs first unveiled OS X 10 years ago, the Finder operated in single application mode, a funky setup whereby switching into a program would minimize all other running applications. In that respect, the first betas of OS X bore a striking resemblance to the iPhone OS of today. Apple soon did away with [...]
Continue reading...Is anyone else unimpressed with Microsoft’s Courier tablet?
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Early yesterday, Gizmodo published what purports to be a more polished mockup video of how Microsoft’s newly rumored Courier notebook/tablet (or whatever you wanna call it) will function. Reading many of the comments at various tech sites, the masses all seem to be shouting in unison, “I WANT ONE!” Not one to ever kill a [...]
Continue reading...Extending dock functionality with “Stand Up” dock [Mockup Video]
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
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Check out this nifty little mockup of a “stand up” dock from Keith Lang. For anyone with a large collection of icons in their dock, this feature would be a nice time saver. ‘Stand Up’ Mac Dock Mockup from Keith Lang on Vimeo.
Continue reading...What ever happened to these Snow Leopard features?
Monday, September 14, 2009
Snow Leopard is admittedly low on new eye candy features, which makes us wonder what ever happened to these window resizing features, originally spotted a few months ago. Were they fake, or did Apple decide to remove them? Our take is that the features above look better in a demo than would translate into actual [...]
Continue reading...Apple’s product philosophy in one sentence
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
This gem comes courtesy of John Gruber of DaringFireball, and encapsulates the driving force behind Apple’s product line and why it chooses not to enter certain markets (ahem, netbooks). Apple tries to make things that many people love, not things that all people like.
Continue reading...Comparing “Copy and Paste” on the iPhone and the Palm Pre
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Apple took a notoriously long time to implement ‘copy and paste’ onto the iPhone, with many pundits shouting that it should have been included from the get go. Apple, in response, has stated that it was looking for the most suitable implementation, and wanted to wait until it could do it right before introducing it [...]
Continue reading...The Pre ain’t no iPhone killer, and here’s why
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Okay, so I finally got my hands on a Pre today (courtesy of a friend who was able to lend it to me for about 30 minutes) and dare I say that I came away feeling underwhelmed. Now before anyone jumps up and says that I’m being biased, let me make clear that I’ve been [...]
Continue reading...Videos depicting Snow Leopard in action removed from YouTube
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Videos of Snow Leopard in action made the rounds on the web quite a bit yesterday, and not surprisingly, the aforementioned videos have subsequently been taken down. Our guess is that Apple caught wind of the videos, which were available at www.youtube.com/leopardoctober, and sent them a pleasant legal warning/demand to immediately take the videos down. The videos, however, [...]
Continue reading...Moving and re-sizing windows in Snow Leopard [Video]
Monday, May 18, 2009
The following video might give us an idea as to what moving and re-sizing windows will be like in Snow Leopard. The video is from a Snow Leopard build from June 2008, so it shouldn’t be assumed that this video is reflective of what the final implementation will be like. Either way, we like where [...]
Continue reading...Microsoft admits UI for Windows Mobile 6.5 was rushed
Thursday, May 14, 2009
You can file this one in the “no shit” cabinet. At the TechEd 2009 conference today, Microsoft employees conceded that UI for Windows Mobile 6.5 was rushed to completion, which makes sense given the OS’s largely underwhelming reception and the UI’s obviously dated appearance. Electronista reports: “The reason why we couldn’t complete the interface on Windows Mobile [...]
Continue reading...Some of the features in Windows 7 have been a long time coming
Monday, April 20, 2009
Yahoo reports on the development process of Windows 7: To design Windows 7, Microsoft analyzed billions of pieces of data. It studied exactly what PC users do in front of their screens. It tallied hundreds of thousands of Windows surveys. It got feedback from people all over the world who tried different versions of the [...]
Continue reading...Apple considers unveiling new UI in Snow Leopard developer builds
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Snow Leopard has long been touted as an OS X upgrade focusing primarily on core OS improvements such as system performance and efficiency. Some of the under the hood improvements expected in OS X 10.6 include a new Finder completely re-written in Cocoa, 64 bit support, Quicktime X, and support for multi-core processors and GPU [...]
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
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