A very good resource regarding fonts and typography for designing mobile UIs. A lot of nice cues and links.
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http://sender11.typepad.com/sender11/2008/01/prototyping-mob.html
The design ideas here include high-resolution touch-screens; minimizing computer admin debris; spatial distribution of information rather than temporal stacking; complete integration of text, images, and live video; a flat non-hierarchical interface; and replacing spacious icons with tight words. The metaphor for the interface is the information. Thus the iPhone got it mostly right.
Discussion on his website. View the video with comments here
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How to cook Indian street food. How to raise your child. How to make iPod
Nano commercial in After Effects. All are excellent quality.
Especially the After Effects tutorials are brilliant,
because the site maintained by BeliefÂÂ
one of the best motion graphics studios in the world.
They have also made some pretty
good semi-documentaries about the design process.
Watch them here.
This is a 2 year old project, but now they released it to the public.
Website.
Take a look at the video section, to see what it is about.
Troika has been commissioned by Artwise Curators to create a signature piece at the entrance of the new British Airways luxury lounges in Heathrow Terminal 5.
In response, we created ‘Cloud’, a five meter long digital sculpture whose surface is covered with 4638 flip-dots that can be individually addressed by a computer to animate the entire skin of the sculpture. Flip-dots were conventionally used in the 70s and 80s to create signs in train-stations and airports. We were fascinated by their materiality, by the way they physically flip from one side to the other. The sound they generate is also instantly reminiscent of travel, and we therefore decided to explore their aesthetic potential in ‘Cloud’.
Project page, development of the Cloud and some videos
Troika used Processing to visualize the possibilities for animation sequences, representations and transitions.
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No touchscreen, the S60 will someday get a gesture controlled interface. Not sure about the intuitiveness of the gestures though.
Lot more info here.ÂÂ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uixUmxH-Z0
Edit: Here’s the manufacturer
and another video this time with Wii-like games.
The bugs are now available. It’s been many months since we heard of the BUG, a very promising collection of easy-to-use electronic modules that snap together to build any gadget you can imagine.
It’s funny to see that they are advertising the product as “easy-to-use electronic modules” but are also clearly stating that “at present, it is our strong recommendation that only Java programmers, or those familiar with developing Linux applications purchase the BUG”
The modules look good, but almost too clean and valuable to encourage users to fiddle, scratch, glue and slap together their dream gadget.
Should we get one for the Interaction Lab? Yes, no, maybe? It’s not exactly cheap at 549 USD for a basic BUGbundle. No international shipping as of now… So we’ll just have to wait and see I guess.
Wow, a nifty pocket size DJ system, and it’s produced by a small Swedish company (Tonium, based in Stockholm).
The device features include a 120 Gb hard drive, USB connection, and the necessary I/O for professional DJ setup/performance. The interaction looks very nice, judging from the videos on the website. It’s not cheap at 520 euros.
Read a review from the Herald Tribune.