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Four short links: 9 November 2009

By Nat Torkington
November 9, 2009

A Battery-Free Implantable Neural Sensor (MIT Tech Review) -- Electrical engineers at the University of Washington have developed an implantable neural sensing chip that needs less power. Uses RFID's induction technology which means the power source can be up to a meter away. Proof of concept was implanted in a moth to sense central nervous system activity. New Microsoft...

Four short links: 30 October 2009

By Nat Torkington
October 30, 2009

The3is In Three -- PhD students must explain their thesis topic in three minutes and one Powerpoint slide. Winner had written on the last words of Shakespearean characters as they met unlikely ends. No video alas, but what a great idea for an Ignite! (via sciblogs) Google Wave: We Came, We Saw, We Played D&D (ArsTechnica) -- gamers using...

Four short links: 14 October 2009

By Nat Torkington
October 14, 2009

10Gui Video -- demo of a new take on multitouch, a tablet and new GUI conventions. (via titine on Twitter) Behind the Scenes at WhatDoTheyKnow -- numbers and stories from the MySociety project, which provides a public place for Official Information Act requests and responses. The fact information is subject to copyright and restrictions on re-use does not exempt...

Preparing for Multi-touch in Flash - A Primer

By Kevin Suttle
October 6, 2009

WOW! Can you believe it?! Adobe MAX Day 1 is complete, and we have seen a ton of new and exciting announcements. It's hard to think we have more to go. Being a die-hard Flash developer, you can guess which...

Four short links: 17 September 2009

By Nat Torkington
September 16, 2009

Wikileaks Now Holds UK Postcode Database -- the UK does not have open geodata in the way that we know it. A state-owned enterprise, Ordnance Survey, is responsible for maintaining all sorts of baseline data and they charge (through the nose) for that data. This is the release of 1,841,177 post codes, geographic boundaries, and more. Postcodes in the...

Four short links: 3 September 2009

By Nat Torkington
September 2, 2009

Many Eyes Make All Bugs Shallow, Especially When The Eyes Get Smarter (David Eaves) -- Mozilla released bug submission data, and David realizes with some minor investment (particularly some simpler vetting screens prior to reaching bugzilla) bug submitters could learn faster. For example, a landing screen that asks you if you've ever submitted a bug before might take newbies...

Four short links: 24 August 2009

By Nat Torkington
August 24, 2009

Making Sense of Revision Control Systems (ACM Queue) -- good introduction to the subject from Bryan O'Sullivan, author of Mercurial: The Definitive Guide (aka Distributed Revision Control with Mercurial) that covers Subversion, Mercurial, and git. Under the distributed view of revision control, every commit is potentially a branch of its own. If Bob and Alice start from the exact...

Four short links: 28 July 2009

By Nat Torkington
July 27, 2009

CNMAT Resource Library -- The CNMAT Resource Library is our fast growing collection of materials, sensors, gestural controllers, interface devices, tools, demos, prototypes and products - all organized and annotated to support the design of physical interaction systems, "new lutherie" and art installations. (via egoodman on Delicious) PyGoWave Server -- first third-party Google Wave server, based on Django. Mobile...

Four short links: 10 July 2009

By Nat Torkington
July 9, 2009

Ceph -- open source distributed filesystem from UCSC. Ceph is built from the ground up to seamlessly and gracefully scale from gigabytes to petabytes and beyond. Scalability is considered in terms of workload as well as total storage. Ceph is designed to handle workloads in which tens thousands of clients or more simultaneously access the same file, or write...

Four short links: 22 June 2009

By Nat Torkington
June 22, 2009

Half of All Friends Replaced Every 7 Years -- to put it another way, the half-life of friendship is 7 years. (via zephoria on delicious) Crowdsourced Car Design -- an interesting approach, and I can imagine it being described as "threadless for cars". (via timoreilly on Twitter) Australian Gov 2.0 Taskforce -- The Aussies are getting their Gov 2.0...

Four short links: 2 June 2009

By Nat Torkington
June 2, 2009

TypeKit -- Jeff Veen's new startup, making typography on the web fail to suck. Every major browser is about to support the ability to link to a font. That means you can write a bit of CSS, include a URL to a font file, and have your page display with the typography you expect. While it’s technically quite easy...

Sports Tournament Style Brackets with jQuery and jQuery UI (2)

By Raymond Camden
May 22, 2009

The second part of my series detailing the creation of a 'sports tournament' bracket picker.

Sports Tournament Style Brackets with jQuery and jQuery UI

By Raymond Camden
May 13, 2009

Using jQuery and jQuery UI to create a 'pick a winner' style application for sports tournaments.

Communicating Interactive Gestures

By Kathryn Barrett
February 6, 2009

Nintendo's Wii, Apple's iPhone and iPod touch have made gestural interfaces wildly popular, but have created a new set of challenges for designers who want to move beyond traditional interface design. Dan Saffer's Designing Gestural Interfaces covers the subject exhaustively, but also shows how carefully we need to look at our assumptions about the way people interact with devices. In this excerpt, Dan covers communicating interactive gestures as well as the three zones of engagement designers need to be aware of.

Small Apps, Loosely-Joined Into Contextual Tasks

By chromatic
November 20, 2008

I spend too much time telling my computer how to do things when I should be able to tell it what I want to do. Perhaps it's time for declarative UIs to replace our procedural UIs.

Some Further Reading on OSS Usability

By Jochen Wolters
September 2, 2008

Matthew Paul Thomas has written a thoughtful and thought-provoking essay on the state of usability in Free and Open Source Software. In "Why Free Software has poor usability, and how to improve it", he gives a concise and well-presented overview over the issues that often plague software projects maintained by volunteers and also lists some suggestions on how to tackle these very problems.

Scaling Distorted Peaks in BIAS Peak

By David Battino
August 20, 2008

While editing a podcast in BIAS Peak 6 recently, I was disturbed to hear the audio distorting even though the peak levels were below 100%. Turns out the culprit was a stealthy slider.

One Voice Recorder per Child

By David Battino
August 11, 2008

When half your population can't read, the spoken word becomes crucial. The Literacy Bridge project is designing a portable voice recorder that third-world populations can use to share news, history, and educational texts. In addition to recording and playing back audio, the Talking Book Device (hardware specs PDF) has buttons for basic interactivity — think quizzes and branching. Furthermore,...

Win MAX tickets, Macbook AIR, and more in Scalenine "Skin to Win" challenge

By RJ Owen
August 11, 2008

Adobe, EffectiveUI and Scalenine are teaming up to sponsor the "Skin to Win" challenge. Designers and Developers are challenged to create their best themes for Adobe Flex with tickets to Adobe MAX, a Macbook AIR, Adobe software and "other great prizes" on the line. Whether you're an experienced designer or someone looking to break into the industry, this conference is for you.

Handy Mockup Tool for RIAs

By Andre Charland
July 30, 2008

I've been involved in web development for about 12 years now and have always been involved in the early stages and client facing aspects of the development cycle. More often than not I turned to very low-fi methods of sketching the early versions of a UI such as paper, whiteboard or Powerpoint. None of these are ideal and the early agreed upon designs seem to get lost along the way. Also it's hard to make changes to non digital mockups. Recently I've been playing around with with Balsamiq Mockups which seems to be a great quick and dirty design tool for developers, designers and those who aren't tech savvy at all.

YUI DataTable Component

By Daniel Barreiro
June 28, 2008

The DataTable component allows us to display and manipulate tabular data. It can be used to enhance an existing HTML table, produce one based on data fetched from a remote data source in JSON, XML or CSV format or a local (client side) source in a few more formats.

Podcast: YUI with Nate Koechley

By Andre Charland
June 26, 2008

In this episode I get an overview of the Yahoo User Interface Library (YUI ) from Nate Koechley. We cover topics including how Nate got started there, the various elements in YUI, why Yahoo builds and maintains this library. We also touched on some of the more unique elements of Yahoo's offering for JavaScript developers including their integration with Flash, the Yahoo Pattern Library and how Yahoo plans to get more open source with their code.

The YAHOO! User Interface Library - YUI

By Daniel Barreiro
June 13, 2008

Little more than a two years ago YAHOO! decided to make its library of cross-browser JavaScript components available to the public with a BSD license as the YUI, the YAHOO! User Interface library. It is now reaching the end of its second major version with dozens of minor versions, each new one bringing a few more components with it.

Information Design Patterns - A New Pattern Library

By Andre Charland
May 19, 2008

listen Speech Icon I stumbled upon a new pattern library via, Information Design Patterns this week Nick Bouton's bookmarks. It's got some really neat patterns especially for anyone doing search or data visualization in RIAs. Let's add this to list of pattern resources I blogged about a while back.

Writing Your First YUI Application

By Eric Miraglia
May 14, 2008

The promise of JavaScript/CSS libraries like the free, BSD-licensed Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library is that they make it easier to create rich interfaces in the browser. In this article, we'll explore the creation of a simple web app using YUI and look closely at the YUI paradigm.

Slick AppleScript-Based Installer

By David Battino
April 15, 2008

The new TechSmith Jing screen-capture program is mighty slick — almost like Plasq Skitch with video. I've only begun to explore Jing, but even the installer impressed me. You can drag the app directly to an alias of your startup drive or double-click an AppleScript installer that moves the file for you and then ejects the disk image. It...

Ryan Stewart & Andre Charland on Trends in RIA Development and Design

By Andre Charland
March 10, 2008

Ryan Stewart interviewed me a couple months ago about RIAs and the trends in development and design. The first question we address is how to get into RIA development. We then take a step back and take a look at issues around issues focused on the user and how usability and user experience are the most important factors when thinking about RIAs, the technology decisions will flow from there...

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