Posts Tagged ‘interface’
Screenshots from eBay-bought Windows Phone hint at notification center, interface tweaks
Author: Jon Daniels
You know how it goes, you buy a phone on eBay, and it comes with a developer / pre-release version of a major mobile OS. Well, if these images are to be believed, that’s at least what happened to one bargain-hunting Windows Phone fan. The screenshots — said to be taken from a Nokia 920 — show Windows Phone 8, but with a few new tweaks and features. Most notable, will likely be the notifications, but other tidbits include App list ordering based on frequency of use, week view in the calendar and the option to kill apps from the multitask screen. The phone reports a build number of: 12084.WPMAIN(wpbldlab).20130509-1407 leading some to infer that this version could have been compiled sometime in May. A tease of something to come? As always, hard to tell, but expect the price of second-hand 920s to bump up a little, for the next few weeks at least.
Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile, Microsoft, Nokia
Via: The Verge
Source: Reddit
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No Comments »Tweetdeck for web and Chrome updated with cleaner user interface
Author: Jenny Zhao
If you’re an avid user of Tweetdeck, we hope you’re also okay feeling the brisk winds of change. The browser-based app, as well as the version on Chrome, has been updated with a fresh and clean user interface. The new design moves all of your options, settings and other buttons to one simple navigation bar on the left side of the app. The sidebar can be expanded to reveal more information about each icon, though most of what you see there will also appear if you simply hover your cursor above the associated symbol. The new interface also adds improvements to lists and settings as well.
Filed under: Desktops
Source: Tweetdeck
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BBC iPlayer for Android adds support for 10-inch tablets, improved user interface
Author: James Cliff
It’s simple: the numbers don’t lie. Clearly aware of the many, many hours viewers are squeezing out of their tablets, the BBC has, for the better, made its iPlayer for Android more friendly with 10-inch models. What this means is folks using the app will no longer have to rely on a shortcut to the website, with the BBC iPlayer now offering native support for those larger Android slates. The changelog also notes that there are some (undisclosed) tweaks to the UI on handsets and 7-inch tablets, but mum’s the word on what the changes were exactly. Either way, we’re sure owners of, say, a Nexus 10 will be happy to hear they’ll now need less steps while trying to catch their favorite shows.
Filed under: Home Entertainment, Tablets, Software
Via: Android Police
Source: Google Play
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Eyes-on: MIT Media Lab’s Smarter Objects can map a user interface onto… anything (video)
Author: Jamie Colby
While patrolling the halls of the CHI 2013 Human Factors in Computing conference in Paris, we spied a research project from MIT’s Media Lab called “Smarter Objects” that turns Minority Report tech on its head. The researchers figured out a way to map software functionality onto tangible objects like a radio, light switch or door lock through an iPad interface and a simple processor / WiFi transceiver in the object. Researcher Valentin Huen explains that “graphical user interfaces are perfect for modifying systems,” but operating them on a day-to-day basis is much easier using tangible objects.
To that end, the team developed an iPad app that uses motion tracking technology to “map” a user interface onto different parts of an object. The example we saw was a simple radio with a a pair of dials and a speaker, and when the iPad’s camera was pointed at it, a circular interface along with a menu system popped up that cannily tracked the radio. From there, Huen mapped various songs onto different positions of the knob, allowing him to control his playlist by moving it — a simple, manual interface for selecting music. He was even able to activate a second speaker by drawing a line to it, then “cutting” the line to shut it off. We’re not sure when, or if, this kind of tech will ever make it into your house, but the demo we saw (see the pair of videos after the break) seemed impressively ready to go.
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Facebook Home Screenshot Leaks Suggest We’ll See An Image-Rich User interface With Sharing Close At Hand
Author: Stefanie Jenkins
Facebook is set to debut an unique Android item tomorrow, and now 9to5Google has a very early look at what we might see, courtesy of Evleaks. The screens depicted on renders of the supposed HTC First smartphone hardware being developed by the Taiwanese business. The images reveal tweaks to the fundamental Android UI that consist of simple access to condition updates, picture sharing and check-in functions, in addition to an emphasis on images.
The screens want to take a mostly minimalist technique to re-skinning the Android OS, with a widget just like the one available for Android house displays occupying a spot near the top of the app tray. A notifications screen utilizes what looks like it might be a Facebook cover image as its background, and seems to show a user ’ s FB profile pic as the open mechanism. There are Instagram, Messenger and Facebook sharing choices revealed in the built-in gallery app, and Evleaks says the entire point is to put Facebook features close at hand wherever possible in the OS itself, making it less required to delve into the specialized app to share or engage with content published to the social network.
The description and screens from this latest leakage match up with exactly what Josh stated was on the means from Facebook for this event last week. Overall, it appears like exactly what FB is doing is making a product that can make Android a much better funnel for prompting mobile individuals to post content and updates to its network, and to better keep up to date with new activity from their pals. If Facebook can effectively show that it can actually enhance the Android experience with deeper hooks, its Home item can become appealing to other OEMs too. As well as though it has actually developed an impressive user base upon its own, shipping on a range of Android hardware around the globe as an aspect essentially baked into the OS works out beyond typical individual acquisition techniques.
We ’ ll have live insurance coverage of the event tomorrow as it takes place, beginning at 10 AM PT, so you can tune in to discover whether what Facebook truly is presenting matches these early leaks as it takes place.
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Fujitsu wants to replace your scanner with an interface out of ‘Minority Report’
Author: JohnnyBells
Over the previous year we & rsquo; ve seen great deals of experimentation around interface, ranging from infrared eye tracking (which has currently found its method into mainstream smartphones) to incredibly exact 3D movement controls. Today, Japan & rsquo; s Fujitsu is flaunting its take on the nontraditional user interface– a combination scanner and camera that is someplace in between among those laser virtual keyboards and a tablet display that it & rsquo; s displaying under the prolonged moniker “Next-Generation UI Enabling Operations by means of Hand Gestures and Finger Movements.”
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Spotify for iOS gets a much-appreciated interface makeover
Author: Ian Simpson
Spotify gave its Android app a very overdue interface overhaul last year. The iOS variation wasn’t in quite as dire straits, however we ‘d still call today’s redesign a long-needed modernization that extracts some of the clutter. Its 0.6 update primarily generates helpful ideas from the Android variation, consisting of the always-on Now Playing strip and the seemingly inescapable navigation sidebar. The update additionally addresses a handful of noteworthy flaws, such as mirroring the right track on the lock display– about time, truly. Listeners will require a Premium subscription for more than just radio, but everybody in Spotify-supported nations could grab the update today.
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Spotify for iOS gets a much-appreciated interface makeover
Author: Jamie Colby
Spotify gave its Android app a very overdue interface overhaul last year. The iOS version wasn’t in quite as dire straits, but we’d still call today’s redesign a long-needed modernization that pulls out some of the clutter. Its 0.6 update mostly brings in useful concepts from the Android version, including the always-on Now Playing strip and the seemingly inescapable navigation sidebar. The update also solves a handful of stand-out flaws, such as reflecting the right track on the lock screen — about time, really. Listeners will need a Premium subscription for more than just radio, but everyone in Spotify-supported countries can grab the update today.
Filed under: Cellphones, Portable Audio/Video
Via: Spotify
Source: App Store
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How ‘Minority Report’ has distorted our vision of interface design
Author: Angela Chin
It’s been more than a decade since Minority Report hit theaters, but its influence on product design doesn’t seem to have waned — much to the dismay of designers like Christian Brown. In a recent piece for the Awl, Brown bemoans Steven Spielberg’s disproportionate influence on interface design, arguing that Minority Report‘s futuristic vision has fueled misguided dreams of gesture-based and touchscreen interfaces that don’t really add much to a product’s function — “interfaces that look good, rather than… work well.”
“Human hands and fingers are good at feeling texture and detail, and good at gripping things—neither of which touch interfaces take advantage of,” Brown writes. “The real future of interfaces will take advantage of…
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Developers Lead When It Concerns The Future Of iOS Individual Interface Design
Author: Alexander McQueen
Apple hasn ’ t done much to alter the way iOS works at its core, in terms of browsing within and between apps and the home display. In reality, iOS is maybe the mobile OS that has stayed the most basically the exact same since its introduction, at least amongst those that are still in active use. However while Apple hasn ’ t been making significant changes to the fundamental iOS interface, third-party designers have actually been pushing the borders and producing fantastic examples of how things could be better for a next-generation version of Apple ’ s mobile OS.
The requirements for catching attention in the App Shop have actually altered drastically over the last couple of years. When Apple ’ s mobile software shop was brand-new, just releasing an app at all could take headings and considerable download numbers. But now it takes something unique, specifically when you ’ re constructing an app whose job is currently appropriately taken care of by countless rivals with existing apps.
That special component recently has actually been available in the type of cutting-edge new methods for individual interaction. Designs that eliminate buttons, basic individual interface elements suggested by Apple and developed into the iOS advancement SDK, mean taking risks since you ’ re asking customers to begin in unfamiliar territory, however in the base cases, they also lead to a kind of new life for your iOS device.
Motions are where it ’ s at for a lot of the newest apps out there. Gestures handle every little thing from data entry, to erasing and adding brand-new products, to switching views and updating information. Apps like to-do list Clear began to broaden the concept of what developers could possibly do with touch-based interfaces, and recently others have used up the case and pushed the borders even further.
Now there ’ s an entire cadre of apps that are doing comparable things, consisting of two featured today by Apple: budget management app Bdgt and weather app Haze. Weather apps seem especially ripe for this kind of modification in design, with Solar likewise offering a similar experience. However no group seems most likely to be left untouched: Mailbox pre-owneds a great deal of motion navigation not seen elsewhere for its inbox management commands, and Increase is a new alarm for iOS that conceals virtually every control interface, depending totally on finger swipes and drags and avoiding anything looking like a button.
A few of the communication methods introduced in these apps are so intuitive you find yourself attempting to utilize them throughout iOS, and in other apps. For instance, swiping left and right to access settings or preferences, or swiping down and up to switch over views and gain access to additional info. Fortunately is, Apple need only pay very close attention to exactly what these third-party devs are doing to begin charting a path to fresh brand-new interface design for iOS. It ’ s past time the mobile OS got a significant, contemporary upgrade, and there are lots of designers out there who are already helping that occur.
