Goggle Glass: Your Body Does Not Want to Be an Interface
By John Pavlus from MIT Technology Review: The first real-world demo of Google Glass’s user interface made me laugh out loud. Forget the tiny touchpad on your temples you’ll be fussing with, or the constant “OK Glass” utterances-to-nobody: the supposedly subtle “gestural” interaction they came up with–snapping your chin upwards to activate the glasses, in […]
If you want to see the future of software UI design, look to the history of print design
This interesting article from bjango.com posits that stylistic design choices follow from the limitations of their hardware or production: Like many trends in technical areas, interaction design is being led by technical ability. 8bit games looked 8bit-y, because of limited colour palettes and giant pixels. 16bit games looked 16bit-y because of better colour abilities and […]
The best resources for learning bleeding-edge web, UI and UX design
Great ideas for web, UI and UX design from Colm Tuite, a great authority, on Quora.com, a great site. Here’s a pretty good resource for learning UX/UI design, if I do say so myself. There is a difference between UI design and UX design. There is a lot of overlap though, so I’ll try to bundle […]