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Apple has filled patents for a touch sensitive device and gestures for working with and manipulating the screen content.
Apple has filled a patent for Multipoint Touchscreen which allows up to 15 simulantous touches of the screen. This new hardware allows to recognise gestures for enabling a new kind of user interface. Some gestures are detailed in other patents.
Additionally Apple invented some interesting ideas to over come the big hands/small widgets problem and come up with the new Gestures for touch sensitive input devices patent. These new patents including methods for retrieving and interpreting the data from a multipoint enabled touchscreen to allow things like e.g. moving or zooming images.
Apple Tablet Desing Study
Multipoint Touchscreen
Gestures for touch sensitive input devices
Visual expander
User interface for Apple Tablet
Apple Tablet and iPod? User interface ideas
Apple Multipoint Touchscreen
Apple Tablet Design
The new Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 has been released and is available for download. ActiveWin has a nice collection of high quality screen shots of the new IE7 user interface.
The main new feature topics for IE7 are:
The IEBlog contains a nice description of the new IE7 user interface.
Jesper Rønn-Jensen has written a blog entry on how to run multiple version of IE on a PC.
Download here (11,2 Mb; englisch)
Release Notes
IEBlog
Internet Explorer 7 Newsgroup
Frequently Asked Questions for the IE7 Beta 2 Preview
Today I found this great link to a timeline of graphical user interfaces (GUI).
This timeline lists all of the graphical user interface environments that I have been able to find information about through my own research and on the Internet.
Today I read the the article What Matters Most? written by Gerd Waloszek, User Experience, SAP AG. He wrote an article about which usability problems annoy him most.
Source: What Matters Most?; Gerd Waloszek; December 15, 2005
I really agree with him. If a product is not very usable you can find your way through the application. But if there are a crashes or huge waiting times then you might loose your data or you have to wait for hours for a response.
What matters you most?
Microsoft Max is a new kind of photo viewing and sharing application. It contains a new interesting user interface for viewing, sorting and sharing your photos. Have a look at Channel 9 video weblog for viewing a video with Piero Sierra and others presenting Max software.
Marketing says: “Microsoft® Max is built on the next-generation WinFX Runtime Components technology that will drive the development of Windows Vista® applications.” Now, what is Max, exactly? We send Scoble to find out. He sits down with project Max Group Program Manager Piero Sierra and friends to find out more about Max (Max is a codename mind you).
Scoble’s assessment? “Microsoft Max is a new kind of photo viewing and sharing application which might be remarkable enough by itself, but the team that developed Max is pretty remarkable themselves.”
Source: Channel 9 video: Microsoft Max
Is this only a Microsoft copy of Google’s Picasa or Apple’s iPhoto?
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