Ron George - Natural User Interface Design / User Experience Design

Gizmodo posts about Courier: Microsoft’s new tablet?

Ron — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:37:52 +0000

UPDATE: The story hit engadget as well, but the story isn’t quite as positive. The comments are though, here’s the story. I saw an interesting article on Gizmodo, ( http://gizmodo.com/536.. ) discussing some apparently new top secret laptop/tablet at Microsoft called Courier. The funniest thing is they mentioned what team it is, E&D, who is developing [...]

Infographic : User Interface Technology Adoption

Ron — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:45:20 +0000

This is an interesting graphic from Gartner ( http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?id=1089112 ). I also like the small excerpt. Gesture recognition dominates the hype in human-computer interaction in 2009, as virtual worlds hit the Trough of Disillusionment. A wide range of emerging technologies are moving from the trigger toward the peak, indicating that innovation continues almost unabated during the [...]

Terminology: the difference between a gesture and a manipulation

Ron — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 20:56:25 +0000

All over the web I see the word gesture used to describe every type of interaction on a natural user interface. Just because you use your finger or a stylus or an accelerometer, does not make it a “gesture.” Is this crucial? Not really to users, consumers, marketing, et al. But it is in being [...]

Google Wave Screenshots

Ron — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:46:47 +0000

Here are a few of my Google Wave Screenshots, and the rest of the set on Flikr. Share this on del.icio.usDigg this!Share this on RedditStumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUponShare this on FacebookTweet This!Subscribe to the comments for this post?Add this to Google BookmarksShare this on FriendFeedShare this on LinkedinPost this on Diigo

Empathy and Emotionally intelligent signage

Ron — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 01:45:05 +0000

I was recently reading an article from Daniel Pink, a self confessed sign nut. He was discussing a great topic that I believe gets so little coverage in the design world. The power and language of empathy in messaging and signage and in user experience as a whole. In particular he had two specific points [...]

The fake Apple gestural movies, a critique by request

Ron — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:19:37 +0000

I’m subscribed to just about every RSS that contains the words NUI or Multi-Touch in the title. One of the better one’s is http://theclevermonkey.blogspot.com. He made a post the other day about how impressed he was with a set of videos on youtube of a mockup from an anonymous person based on what they thought [...]

Ivan Sutherland’s Sketchpad : know your history

Ron — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:56:38 +0000

One of the main thought threads going through work and through design as a whole is to know your history. Things have been designed, created, used, and not used over the years. It is of being a good scholar and being a good designer, to know your history. Give credit where it is due. This is [...]

I love seeing things I have designed in use

Ron — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:51:42 +0000

You know, there are not that many things greater than seeing something you worked on being put to practical use. I think the only bad thing would be if they were complaining about it. Here, they are absolutely loving it. Granted, I only did a little bit of the work and there is a large [...]

N-Trig’s excellent hardware demo apps

Ron — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 05:46:00 +0000

This video demonstrates a number of new multi-touch software applications, designed using N-trig’s DuoSense® technology, in collaboration with some of N-trig’s ISV partners, including FingerTapps, Natural User Interface Europe AB, and SpaceClaim. The applications show full multi-touch utilizing up to four fingers, and range across areas of interest from consumer gaming, multi-media management, retail shopping [...]

3d modeling with Spaceclaim’s prototype multi-touch

Ron — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 05:38:02 +0000

A preview demonstration of modeling in 3D using a SpaceClaim’s prototype multi-touch user interface that will be added to SpaceClaim this fall. Also includes clips of ANSYS Workbench, Blue Ridge Numerics CFdesign, and Bunkspeed Hypershot, showing some finger dancing that you can do without multi-touch. Share this on del.icio.usDigg this!Share this on RedditStumble upon something [...]