How Autodesk tested their Sculpt iPad app
An interesting blog post from Autodesk on how they tested their "123D Sculpt" app for iPad, specifically with regard to different types of users: Straddling the device (Designing the User Experience at...
View ArticleUPA 2012 Call for Participation is Open
The call for submissions for next year's UPA (Usability Professionals Association) is now open and I encourage people to submit. I for one would love to see more touch and hardware related content this...
View ArticleTouch Mouse Concepts - Student Innovation Contest Winners
Last month at the UIST conference there was a student innovation contest to design new interactions using the Microsoft Touch Mouse. The Microsoft Hardware blog has collected links to videos of the...
View ArticleLimitations of touchscreens
I like Edward Tufte's take on Brett Victor's recent essay, A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design. Tufte's comments are here: Touchscreens have no hand A favorite line: "Dimensional...
View ArticleAssistive touch
A good article by David Pogue about the new "AssistiveTouch" feature that Apple added to iOS 5 for iPhones and iPads. Link: Apple's AssistiveTouch Helps the Disables use a Smartphone
View ArticleUPA 2012 next week
Hello blog (& blog readers). Sorry for my absence of late. I'm hoping to get back into the swing of things soon. Meanwhile, I'll be at UPA 2012 next week in Las Vegas. I'm look forward to learning...
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Touch Template
Steven Hoober is taking preorders for a clever little touch template he's designed. Looks useful as an overlay and comes with additional guidelines on the sleeve. $10 each. Links: Touch Template...
View ArticleThe Rise of Tap-and-Hold
Here's an interesting article at fast.co design about the clever use of the tap-and-hold gesture in two hot apps, Vine and Snapchat (or at least they were hot apps two weeks ago when this article was...
View ArticleGesture and NUI workshop August 5-9
Jody Medich of Kicker Studio will be teaching a workshop at UC Berkeley that sounds quite good: Gestural and Natural User Interfaces Physical interfaces are understood, learned and experienced through...
View ArticleBill Buxton: Designing for Ubiquitous Computing
An inspiring recent talk by Bill Buxton at Microsoft's TechFest. You can download the slides to click along here: http://billbuxton.com/Buxton%20TechFest%202013_v08.ppsx Well worth an hour of your...
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