jeroencoumans' Bookmarks Tagged With "navigation"
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Navigating by Color in Maps by COLOURlovers
http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2008/02/13/navigating-by-color-in-maps/
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Some great examples of maps that use colour for navigation.
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Spatial Navigation and Opera
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001057.html
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"Jan said "directional navigation works so well on mobile devices, I'm hoping it will get built into a browser someday." What he apparently didn't realize is that at least one browser already implements spatial navigation. That browser is Opera. "
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The linguistic commandline, by Aza Raskin
http://interactions.acm.org/content/?p=35
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"Unfortunately, the same thing is also true for the GUI: It’s matured, but hasn’t fundamentally changed in the last 23 years. We are still stuck juggling windows in a time-wasting dance to find the application we need to get a task done …"
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Touchless human/machine user interface for 3D navigation
http://www.ellipticlabs.com/confluence/display/elliptic/Home;jsessionid=B7DE1070C7EDFE792A55D4ECFF4DA0A7
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"Elliptic Labs is paving the way for use of computers and screens without touching, simply with the finger or hand in the air. Manipulate images, play computer games, control robotics or use touch screens without touching or without holding a hardware con
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Usability Highlights from 2007
http://www.blinkinteractive.com/ourexperience/essays/2008/02/usability_highlights_2007.php
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Interesting snippet: "Gaze plots from our recent eye-tracking studies also showed users skipping over important items in a too-long list of links or abandoning long lists of links altogether in favor of other page navigation."
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Directional keyboard navigation could improve PC-based browsing too
http://miksovsky.blogs.com/flowstate/2007/11/directional-key.html
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Very interesting discussion on the differences between the tab-based keybard navigation and directional keyboard. Although implemented in mobile devices and Opera, no large browser offers this yet.
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Vera Hollink
http://staff.science.uva.nl/~vhollink/
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This researcher has various publications on using intelligent algorithms to automatically adjust the navigation of websites to users behaviour.
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OfficeMax Reinvents Navigation
http://www.getelastic.com/office-max-redesign/
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Taking a cue from address books, the navigation is a simple alphabet with fly-out menu of all products that are sold.
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TED: Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129
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"Using photos of oft-snapped subjects (like Notre Dame) scraped from around the Web, Photosynth (based on Seadragon technology) creates breathtaking multidimensional spaces with zoom and navigation features that outstrip all expectation. "
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Like A Super Hero
http://www.newsweek.com/id/105532/output/print
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"Humans weren't made for scrolling and searching. We were made for zooming." Newsweek article on Seadragon, the experimental zooming interface acquired by Microsoft.
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