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Language-Based Interfaces, part 1: The Problem (16)

by Jono DiCarlo (0) on

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What would the web be like if you could tell it what you want to do as easily as you currently tell it where you want to go? Mozilla Labs is starting to experiment with linguistic interfaces. That is, we’re playing around with interfaces where you type commands and stuff happens — in much the same way that you can type a location into the address bar in order to go somewhere. I think this ...

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jonezy said: great read as usual

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Designing Without Modal Overlays (13)

by Aza Raskin (83) on

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In the concept video I recently did for laying out the interface paradigms for Firefox Mobile, I listed five guiding principals. Touch it with your finger Large targets are good Visual Momentum and Physics are compelling Typing is difficult Content is king It’s these principals that inform the design of new features long after the original design as been coded, released, and iterated on. In discussions with the perspicacious Mike Beltzner, another design principal emerged. ...

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Nick said: nice arguments page. I like the tray solution. Assynchronous.
Matt said: some more great thinking on interaction design from Aza. I'm trying to convince folks of the importance of non-modal prompts and interactions at work.

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Ubiquitous Interfaces, Ubiquitous Functionality (7)

by Atul Varma (0) on

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Lately some of us at Mozilla Labs have been experimenting with graphical keyboard user interfaces in Firefox. Our current work-in-progress is something that we’re calling Ubiquity for the time being, though the name is by no means set in stone. Ubiquity is heavily informed by Enso, a software product developed by me and my colleagues at Humanized from 2005-07. Aside from the benefits outlined in Alex Faaborg’s blog post entitled The Graphical Keyboard User Interface, ...

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Dave said: The folks at Humanize come up with a very interesting firefox addition, building off of the work they did with Enso. I'm not sure if I'm feelin' all this CLI stuff though.

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Firefox Mobile Concept Video (2)

by Aza Raskin (83) on

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Firefox is coming to mobile. The innovation, usability, and extensibility that has propelled Firefox to 200 million users is set to do the same for Firefox in a mobile setting. User experience is the most important aspect of having a compelling mobile product. Every bit of interaction and pixel of presentation counts when typing is laborious and screen sizes are minuscule. Many of the standard interaction models, like menus, always-present chrome, and having a cursor, ...

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Brad Lauster said: Interesting interaction design in Aza's demo video.

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