UI-related Links
This is Chris' list of UI-related pages,
with a few additions by Fare.
It is shared between the Tunes
Interfaces Subproject
and the Tunes
Review Subproject.
Oranization here sucks. Improvement is on my list....
Established Graphics Standards
Research
New and different
- Magic Lenses UI:
using see-through tools in front of a basic UI to enhance things
- [MIA] Pad++.
Jecel says:
"This is a *very* interesting user interface written in Scheme.
I don't know if there are any legal restrictions
that would keep LispOS from adopting it,
but it would really make the system stand out
from all those Windows and X things."
- Bricks Graspable UI:
making UIs more tangeable
than today's all-virtual worlds of mice and icons
- Pad Interface:
a system where zooming in, to an arbitrary depth, is key
- Eye-control User Interface Research
- PARAgente User Agent Research
- Effective Visual Communication for GUIs:
decent stuff on typography, symbols, color
- Adaptive Interface class at Georgia Tech:
lots of PS doc links about adaptive interfaces
- Georgia Tech UI Animation Research
- Improving Music Software UIs
- Merlin Project Interface
Particularly,
Jecel's GUI Paper:
describes GUI advantages, evolution,
and the gap between machine's state and
user's perception thereof
- [MIA] Some of Rainer's UI Thoughts
- [MIA] Art and the User Interface:
suggestion that UIs should be designed more by artists
- [MIA] Some Economics of User Interfaces:
Why -- economically -- ease of use is so behind ease of learning
- [MIA] Visual Design for the User Interface, Part 1:
covers GUI history, as well as good/bad behavior
(ie having or not having modes)
- Microsoft Research User Interfaces Group:
some stuff about animation and life-like characters
- Digital UI Research
- Consistency vs. Multiplicity in Interface Design
- [MIA] Computer Graphics & Graphical User Interfaces:
a collection of UI papers, organized by subject
- "As we may think",
Vannevar Bush's 1945 vision about what computers should become.
- Ted Nelson's Xanadu
- a collection of links about
HyperText
- AlertBox,
part of Jakob Nielsen's
website
on interface usability.
- QNX's Photon display system
- RealAroma,
it's a joke, but...
- HyTime
- SingularIT
(does automatic UI generation)
Books/Articles
Misc
Pages with other Links