Comments on: South by Southwest Live Notes http://www.torgo.com/blog/2007/03/south-by-southwest-live-notes.html Musings on technology, the Web, mobility and beyond Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:47:32 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Dan’s Blog (2.0 » Wanted: a New User Experience Metaphor for the Mobile Web) http://www.torgo.com/blog/2007/03/south-by-southwest-live-notes.html/comment-page-1#comment-8247 Dan’s Blog (2.0 » Wanted: a New User Experience Metaphor for the Mobile Web) Sun, 25 Mar 2007 20:52:58 +0000 http://www.torgo.com/blog/2007/03/south-by-southwest-live-notes.html#comment-8247 [...] In the panel on designing for convergent devices that I attended at South by Southwest, Denise Burton from Frog Design made some very good points about focus (that is, of everything on the screen what is the “active” element — subject to actuation of the “OK” button or other functions such as text input) and the use of animated transitions to clue the user in when that focus changes. She also demonstrated a UI built on top of Qualcomm’s UI1 that brought some of these concepts to life (a kind of continuum of widgets with clear transitions to show which widget is active and the ability to dive deeper into a particular widget to get a more detailed view). The advantage of this kind of metaphor is that it puts a large amount of information at a user’s fingertips and provides a highly efficient navigational metaphor (as few clicks as possible to get to the information you want). The only problem is that this type of experience exists as a closed universe — another walled garden. How do you take this kind of immersive UI and open it up to a world of developers? How can such a user experience support the kind of user choice that we have come to expect from the Web? [...] [...] In the panel on designing for convergent devices that I attended at South by Southwest, Denise Burton from Frog Design made some very good points about focus (that is, of everything on the screen what is the “active” element — subject to actuation of the “OK” button or other functions such as text input) and the use of animated transitions to clue the user in when that focus changes. She also demonstrated a UI built on top of Qualcomm’s UI1 that brought some of these concepts to life (a kind of continuum of widgets with clear transitions to show which widget is active and the ability to dive deeper into a particular widget to get a more detailed view). The advantage of this kind of metaphor is that it puts a large amount of information at a user’s fingertips and provides a highly efficient navigational metaphor (as few clicks as possible to get to the information you want). The only problem is that this type of experience exists as a closed universe — another walled garden. How do you take this kind of immersive UI and open it up to a world of developers? How can such a user experience support the kind of user choice that we have come to expect from the Web? [...]

]]> By: Jeff Beckham http://www.torgo.com/blog/2007/03/south-by-southwest-live-notes.html/comment-page-1#comment-6528 Jeff Beckham Tue, 13 Mar 2007 20:59:39 +0000 http://www.torgo.com/blog/2007/03/south-by-southwest-live-notes.html#comment-6528 Thanks for coming to the panel, Dan. I was the moderator and was thrilled with the turnout in the morning and the feedback from the audience. Feel free to drop me a line any time. Jeff Thanks for coming to the panel, Dan. I was the moderator and was thrilled with the turnout in the morning and the feedback from the audience. Feel free to drop me a line any time.

Jeff

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