Smartpaper Networks Licenses Touchsmart Publishing to Distribute Next-Generation Textbooks Using a Unique "Touch User Interface"

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The Commercial Feasibility of a
Next-Generation User Interface

The Commercial Feasibility of a
Next-Generation User Interface 05/28/2002 12:30 PM

UGENE: User-interface GENeration Engine

UGENE: User-interface GENeration Engine 01/22/2004 11:07 PM
UGENE Alpha1 Released

Networks 3G Revolution Still One User
Generation Away – Gossip Not Technology
the Key to European Hearts

Networks 3G Revolution Still One User
Generation Away – Gossip Not Technology
the Key to European Hearts 03/14/2005 05:59 PM
It’s good to talk - gossip not technology the key to European 3G revolution. [PRWEB Mar 10, 2005]

TouchSmart Publishing Featured in
eSchool News Story

TouchSmart Publishing Featured in
eSchool News Story 08/20/2004 02:41 AM
A featured article was published in the eSchool News by Cara Branigan on Wednesday, August 19, 2004. The article covered the movement to introduce wireless textbooks that connect all students to digital content. [PRWEB Aug 20, 2004]

TouchSmart Publishing and SOCHE Announce
Strategic Alliance

TouchSmart Publishing and SOCHE Announce
Strategic Alliance 07/04/2004 02:27 AM
TouchSmart Publishing, LLC and the Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education (SOCHE) announced a strategic alliance to investigate ways to reduce textbook costs in higher education. [PRWEB Jul 4, 2004]

TouchSmart Publishing and 24/7
Educational Services Announce Strategic
Technology Partnership

TouchSmart Publishing and 24/7
Educational Services Announce Strategic
Technology Partnership 02/01/2005 09:10 PM
TouchSmart and 24/7 have strategically partnered to develop and deploy teacher professional development (PD) courses using TouchSmart's innovative technology that turns the PD book into a remote control for 24/7's web-based PD courses. [PRWEB Feb 1, 2005]

TouchSmart Publishing and the Primax
Group Announce Strategic Partnership for
Education Content

TouchSmart Publishing and the Primax
Group Announce Strategic Partnership for
Education Content 08/02/2004 02:38 AM
TouchSmart Publishing, LLC and The Primax Group today announced a strategic partnership to collaborate in developing digital (back-end) and page layout (front-end) content for interactive textbooks. [PRWEB Aug 2, 2004]

BBC Really Is Looking At File Sharing
Networks To Distribute Programs

BBC Really Is Looking At File Sharing
Networks To Distribute Programs 02/17/2004 01:15 PM
The BBC made a ton of news back in August for saying they were going to open their archive of TV programs for free, and then made even more news by suggesting they might use file sharing networks to distribute that content. However, there had been some skepticism since then whether or not they would really do it, and some management shuffles (and questions about the BBC's very existence) had put the whole thing into question. However, folks at the BBC say they're still actively exploring P2P file sharing as a method for distribution and want to create an online PVR of sorts that would let people download or stream any content they wanted. Realizing that the bandwidth costs would be immense, they (unlike so many others) have realized the power that P2P distribution allows them: distributing a massive amount of content without having to deal with the bandwidth costs by using everyone else's excess bandwidth. Assuming this ever really does get going, it will be exhibit number one of a "legitimate use" in the next lawsuit trying to make file sharing networks illegal.

How would I distribute HKCU keys to any
user that will log on to this
workstation? Part II

How would I distribute HKCU keys to any
user that will log on to this
workstation? Part II 06/17/2004 05:07 AM

IBM licenses Rambus XDR interface

IBM licenses Rambus XDR interface 06/17/2005 04:25 PM
The Register Jun 17 2005 11:25AM GMT

How many unique user agents?

How many unique user agents? 01/03/2003 12:49 AM
It seems that Scott is surprised by the number of unique user agents his server sees. So I decided to check mine: mysql> select count(distinct(agent)) from access_jeremy_zawodny_com; +------------------------+ | count(distinct(agent)) | +------------------------+ | 15366 | +------------------------+ 1 row in set...

On Beyond Help: User Assistance and the
User Interface

On Beyond Help: User Assistance and the
User Interface 09/09/2002 06:29 AM

The Cranky User: Electronic publishing,
Usability, and a Free Lunch

The Cranky User: Electronic publishing,
Usability, and a Free Lunch 09/13/2002 03:25 AM

The Zooming User Interface

The Zooming User Interface 08/15/2004 08:45 PM

Even in the present day, the desktop metaphor still pervades, but with increases in the amount of information available to any one person, this metaphor is felt to be in need of a reworking. The zooming user interface (ZUI) is an idea first discussed by Bederson (1993) as a radical change to the way in which a person interacts with a computer. This paper will initially discuss how a ZUI works, followed by a review of the empirical literature available.

Zooming User Interface (ZUI)

Zooming User Interface (ZUI) 08/17/2004 04:46 PM

Here's a fascinating rap on a new way to do UI's.

It's called ZUI.

Always interesting in that.....

Found via Advogato

Other pages on OS X user interface

Other pages on OS X user interface 06/05/2005 11:39 PM
Other developers write about walking the user interface line—trying to be consistent but also having to create custom widgets to stay modern.

Michael Dupuis: “Sure there are ‘lesser’ elements available to us as developers, but they often don’t have the ‘bling’ that users come to expect.”

Dan Wood: “We have to walk the line in our user interface decisions all the time, trying to make an application look consistent with the Mac interface, and also ‘modern.’”

User Interface Design

User Interface Design 06/14/2002 12:15 PM
"(...) good design always involves a process of compromise."

History of the Graphical User Interface

History of the Graphical User Interface 11/25/2002 09:54 AM

UIDK (User Interface Development Kit)

UIDK (User Interface Development Kit) 10/29/2003 11:26 AM
Homepage

Palm OS User Interface Guidelines

Palm OS User Interface Guidelines 12/06/2002 08:01 AM

Report: User Interface Issues

Report: User Interface Issues 03/14/2005 05:07 PM
inconsistencies in Apple software, various design issues

Resolver User Layer Interface 0.28

Resolver User Layer Interface 0.28 06/30/2004 07:24 PM
RULI implements a library aimed at querying DNS SRV resource records.

XUL Defines New User Interface Options

XUL Defines New User Interface Options 10/28/2002 11:23 AM

IBM Reflexive User Interface Builder
1.0.0

IBM Reflexive User Interface Builder
1.0.0 08/09/2004 11:49 PM
A user interface building tool for Swing and Eclipse GUIs.

User Interface System Requirements

User Interface System Requirements 05/22/2004 11:12 AM

nmap Graphical User Interface

nmap Graphical User Interface 06/15/2004 08:17 AM
NmapSi 0.2 Beta is Released!!

Resolver User Layer Interface 0.25

Resolver User Layer Interface 0.25 06/09/2004 05:18 PM
RULI implements a library aimed at querying DNS SRV resource records.

Location X gets tweaked user interface,
more

Location X gets tweaked user interface,
more 10/30/2003 01:40 PM
Shareware authors Alex Keresztes and Greg Novick have updated Location X, the US$20 location manager for Mac OS X, to version 2.0, which offers a new user interface, new customization options and more.

Resolver User Layer Interface 0.22

Resolver User Layer Interface 0.22 05/31/2004 05:41 AM
RULI implements a library aimed at querying DNS SRV resource records.

User Interface Design for Programmers

User Interface Design for Programmers 05/31/2004 11:33 PM

I read Joel Spolsky's book over the weekend: "User Interface Design for Programmers." This is an excellent guide to usability — for client apps and for Web development.

The strength of the book is that it doesn't start by presenting many hard-and-fast rules, but instead concetrates on general concepts that you really need to understand to develop an effective user interface. People Can't Read. People Can't Remember. People Can't Control the Mouse. Design for Extremes. These principles then naturally lead to more specific guidelines.

For example: you know how when you first learn CSS, you put a textarea rule in your sheet to change the font in text boxes from that ugly monospaced, Courier font to some slick variably-spaced font? Looks nice, sure, but Joel demonstrates how hard it can be to edit for some people. Sure, it's fine for you, but you're young and you have an optical, USB mouse, and you've been using computers since you got out of diapers.

Sadly, however, everyone isn't you. Some users don't have your eyesight, motor skills, or experience, and your tiny little variably-spaced font is now a problem for them. Lower-case L's, for instance, are now just one pixel wide. A lower-case I differs from a lower-case L by only a single pixel. If two lower-cased L's are next to each other ("allegory"), there's only one pixel of "gutter" space between them — ever tried getting the text insert cursor to land exactly between them? You're literally trying to hit a 1-pixel wide target.

Upon reading this, I went back to an app I was writing and changed all text inputs and text areas to Courier New, 12px. It doesn't look as nice, but I'll concede that it's easier and clearer to edit. Sometimes usability comes at the price of how things look, but so it goes.

Joel touches on the user model and system model that I read about earlier this year in Don Norman's "The Design of Everyday Things." Simply put, a user forms a model in his or her head about how your app works. That model may have nothing to do with how it really works (the system model), but that's your problem, not the user's. Your goal as an interface designer, is to make the implementation model (how the interface represents the system model) match the user model as closely as possible.

The book is full of good ideas and really solid, non-frilly advice. Joel's obvious experience saturates every page (I gather he did the UI for the ISP Juno, and was on the Microsoft Excel team). It's full-color with glossy pages and scads of screen caps.

I'll finish here by hand-typing an excerpt that's so good I'll risk the copyright lawyers. It addresses a point I talked about a while ago when I was struggling with the non-confirmity of the Linux interface.

I've seen companies where management prides themselves on doing things deliberately different from Microsoft. "Just because Microsoft does it, doesn't mean it's right," they brag, and then proceed to create a gratuitouisly different interface from the one that people are used to. Before you start chanting the mantra "just because because Microsoft does it, doesn't mean it's right," please consider two things.

One, even if it's not right, if Microsoft is doing it in a popular program like Word, Excel, Windows, or Internet Explorer, millions of people are going to think that it's right, or at least fairly standard. [...and] if you refuse to do it on some general religious principle that Bill Gates is the evil Smurf arch-nemesis Gargamel then you are just gratuitiously ruining your program so that you can feel smug and self-satisifed [...]

Two, don't be so sure it's not right. Microsoft spends more money on usability testing than you do; they keep detailed statistics based on millions of tech support phone calls; and there's a darn good chance that they did it that way because more people can figure out how to use it that way.

As much as I hate to admit Microsoft is right, amen to that.

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Resolver User Layer Interface 0.29

Resolver User Layer Interface 0.29 08/15/2004 05:59 AM
RULI implements a library aimed at querying DNS SRV resource records.

Resolver User Layer Interface 0.23

Resolver User Layer Interface 0.23 06/03/2004 06:48 PM
RULI implements a library aimed at querying DNS SRV resource records.

User-Interface Designers Take Note

User-Interface Designers Take Note 06/05/2005 10:47 PM

Spencer Critchley is going to travel with a hammer from now on. Watch Out!

Mac User Interface Design for New
Developers

Mac User Interface Design for New
Developers 10/10/2002 09:55 AM

GLUI User Interface Library

GLUI User Interface Library 03/26/2005 09:25 PM
GLUI webpage has moved

User Interfaces: The Next Generation

User Interfaces: The Next Generation 08/06/2004 11:56 PM
Computerworld Aug 7 2004 4:14AM GMT

Create a Custom User Interface with PPX
For Pocket PC

Create a Custom User Interface with PPX
For Pocket PC 12/30/2003 12:06 PM
BrightHand Dec 30 2003 11:21AM ET

Notes and Tips: User Interface Design

Notes and Tips: User Interface Design 06/05/2005 11:12 PM
Good Mac user-interface design isn't always easy....

Group for User Interface Research -
DENIM

Group for User Interface Research -
DENIM 01/06/2004 02:40 PM
Denim is a really interesting-looking early prototyping tool for web sites. You need to watch the video to really understand it. Unfortunately (but smartly) it really is designed for tablet input, which I don't have, so it's kinda hard to try out.
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