Usability Quote of the Day

May 23, 2012

There's something very odd going on here. If designers made completely unrealistic assumptions about the physical world when designing technology, then we would blame them (and likely sue them) for technical incompetence. Yet when they make grossly unrealistic assumptions about human nature... we don't blame the designers, we blame the unfortunate people who are just trying to do what the design requires. -- Kim Vicente, The Human Factor, p. 45.    (via interaction-design.org)

Sunday, February 05, 2006

User interface for Apple Tablet

New UI opportunities with Apples new tablet ...

Apple has filled patents for a touch sensitive device and gestures for working with and manipulating the screen content.

Apple has filled a patent for Multipoint Touchscreen which allows up to 15 simulantous touches of the screen. This new hardware allows to recognise gestures for enabling a new kind of user interface. Some gestures are detailed in other patents.

Additionally Apple invented some interesting ideas to over come the big hands/small widgets problem and come up with the new Gestures for touch sensitive input devices patent. These new patents including methods for retrieving and interpreting the data from a multipoint enabled touchscreen to allow things like e.g. moving or zooming images."   continued ...   (Via User Interface Blog)

Apple Tablet. - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics

Apple Tablet.

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