Great Review of Nokia N97 Interface.

Thanks to Phone Arena for consistently busting out great reviews!

Multitouch Application Round Up, Jun 18

Several Important Trends are Emerging

1. We are seeing more explorations of how cameras and touch interfaces can work in concert to provide richer user experiences. This trend has been building for a coupe of months now, but it's starting to pick up steam.

2. Non-Apple mobile vendors are starting to put out more advances multitouch devices, so we are also starting to see real experimentation here..

3. Better binding between UX and Visual Design. It seems like designers and developers are startign to work better together.

Useless Face Tracking



Useful Face Tracking
Sweet Idea About Using Front Facing Eye Tracking in Mobile Devices, From TAT



Projectors on Mobile Phones

For the record, Im getting obsessed with projectors in mobile phones. I think it's gonna be the next big thing. Heres a prototype of a game mechanic.



Identity Mine and Solid Works 3D File Viewer For Surface


Phenom Blue Does a Medical Visualization on Surface
It's kinda cool for a guided tour. I'd like to see more client interaction though.



Note to self, that's the last time I eat cake!


Interesting Mapping App
I like the "Tractor Beams" that visually bind content together.





Nice Student Project




Palm Pre Review

I like how Palm has used the corners of the screen to call up background apps, like music.



Preview of Samsung Jet

The navigation with using accelerometers doesn't really seem to work, but it's an interesting idea.



Direct Manipulating Video From 22 Miles

Multitouch Application Round Up, Jun 18

Several Important Trends are Emerging

1. We are seeing more explorations of how cameras and touch interfaces can work in concert to provide richer user experiences. This trend has been building for a coupe of months now, but it's starting to pick up steam.

2. Non-Apple mobile vendors are starting to put out more advances multitouch devices, so we are also starting to see real experimentation here..

3. Better binding between UX and Visual Design. It seems like designers and developers are startign to work better together.

Useless Face Tracking



Useful Face Tracking
Sweet Idea About Using Front Facing Eye Tracking in Mobile Devices, From TAT



Projectors on Mobile Phones

For the record, Im getting obsessed with projectors in mobile phones. I think it's gonna be the next big thing. Heres a prototype of a game mechanic.



Identity Mine and Solid Works 3D File Viewer For Surface


Phenom Blue Does a Medical Visualization on Surface
It's kinda cool for a guided tour. I'd like to see more client interaction though.



Note to self, that's the last time I eat cake!


Interesting Mapping App
I like the "Tractor Beams" that visually bind content together.





Nice Student Project




Palm Pre Review

I like how Palm has used the corners of the screen to call up background apps, like music.



Preview of Samsung Jet

The navigation with using accelerometers doesn't really seem to work, but it's an interesting idea.



Direct Manipulating Video From 22 Miles

Interecting Multitouch Wall from Schematic

A touch wall app that does more than sort photos....Finally!

Touchwall Demo from Joel on Vimeo.

Insanely Great Video of IPhone Ported to 24" Display

Even if this whiffs of fakery, it's a compelling idea and a great visualization! Add some mark up menus and an appropriate keyboard and people will be tearing these off the shelves.



I swears Apple's its not working on a porting the iphone OS to a tablet or a netbook. Tim Cook told us that a multitouch tablet/netbook experience wouldn't be compelling. He wouldn't lie would he? Naw, never. These are not the droids you're looking for.

Some Sweet Imagination from Imaginary Forces.

All controllers should be this cool!

Multitouch Industry Profiled in NY Times

My favorite tidbit, Corel is likely making multitouch image editing software! In previous videos from Adobe, we saw what looked like a paint demo using a pressure sensitive display. This is gonna be fun days!

More After This Link

Video Overview of Cool 3D Controllers

This video shows a broad range of controllers that can be used to manipulate 3D objects. These guys are trying to sell a CAD plugin, but Win7 makes really easy to hack most of this stuff yourself.

C4D CamGripTools from Cinema 4D Tutorials on Vimeo.

Proof that Multitouch Isn't Intuitive

This study entitled, "How People Really Use the iPhone" provides some great insight into what works and what doesn't work in touch interfaces.

How people really use the iPhone

View more Microsoft Word documents from Bill Westerman.

It ends with 8 Rules of Thumb that sound pretty good to me.

1. Take Advantage of Learned Behaviors

2. Avoid Interaction Inconsistencies

3. Provide Clear Conceptual Link Between Widgets

4. Put Space Between Action Widgets

5. Plan for Accidental Overswiping

6. Don't rely exclusively on Multitouch

7. Provide Visual Feedback For Taps

8. Provide Interaction Affordances


Thanks to http://www.touchuserinterface.com for hunting this one down.

Multitouch 3D CAD App from Space Claim

Touch sensor manufacturer nTrig demo'd a number of partner Apps at SID. The one that gets me the most excited is a 3D CAD app. It's at about 2:15. Check it out.




What do you think? Is this smoke and mirrors or is it the real thing?