Why Microsoft Should Not Be Pushing Their New Metro UI Onto Their Other Products
While it is possible to navigate around the tile-based Start menu in Windows 8 with a mouse and keyboard, it is a little unwieldy, much like playing a piano while wearing gloves. There is also the matter of just how important using a touch-focused user interface is to the standard user.
Clear: A To-Do List App With A UI From The Future
If Inchauste is right, these “invisible” gestural affordances will allow our apps and digital tools to be cleaner, quieter, more ambient and incidental—in other words, more like the other “plain ol’ stuff” that we take for granted in our built environments. Sure, an ancient Greek might be momentarily perplexed by a modern doorknob if he were to be teleported into the 21st century. But that doesn’t mean no one should have ever invented doorknobs.
The Page Turner - YouTube
Schönheit von Unsinn
Joly-Cloud OS - jetzt open source
Joli OS, our own operating system used in many schools and public service as a free way to recycle old computers to connect them to the cloud, has been open sourced and is now available to the community.
Hätte mich auch gewundert, wenn sie´s geschafft hätten als Startup mit einem neuen OS Geld zu verdienen.
Big Innovation Lives Right on the Edge of Ridiculous Ideas
Play is a state of mind. I’ve heard it described as a visceral form of learning. It really doesn’t matter what the activity is, it’s the way you approach the activity that makes it play.
Giving Kick-Ass Presentations In The Age Of Social Media | Fast Company
If You Don’t Speak Twitterese, It’s Time to Learn It
Let’s just imagine for the moment that your audience is absolutely riveted by your every word. Chances are some, if not many of them, will want to share your wisdom with their network, not tomorrow when they get back to the office, but right at that very moment. It is for this reason today’s effective speakers are not just sharing their Twitter handles upfront but also mixing in tweetable quotes. “Puns, sound bites and pithy phrases are [also] ways to aid in retention,” Havens said.
Schadet aber auch sonst nicht, ein paar aussagekräftige Sätze einzubauen.
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Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action
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Kittywood Studios: Cat Videos Incorporated - YouTube
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Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity? - YouTube
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The basic Concept of akinyo
The basic concept of our online application is, that every kind of content can be posted on a zoomable map. Zooming works as on Google Maps.
You can bookmark websites, upload files and create personal notes and organize everything in so called Spaces, kind of islands, that you can put into each other to build a visual hirarchical structure.
In this video some of the basic principals of akinyo.com are explained:
http://akinyo.com/static/intern/akinyo/index.htmlWe built akinyo originally for creatives to collaborate on creating ideas: (UseCase Scenario: http://akinyo.com/static/intern/akinyo/index.html - Language: English)
The platform is built in Flash. But it also should easily be able to be built in HTML5.
Ryan Singer at Future of Web Apps, London 2010 on Vimeo
Here’s a talk I gave at Future of Web Apps 2010 in London. In this talk, I walk through the steps of creating a web app including modeling, sketching, HTML, Photoshop explorations, and moving from static mockups to live running code. Each step is illustrated with a real example, including some live sketching and live HTML. I also wanted to give a sense of how we think about apps at 37signals, as a stack of different levels that we can iterate on individually.
