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  • Anand Agarawala on BumpTop- a 3 D desktop environment

    Anand Agarawala, interface designer, software developer and inventor, presented BumpTop in mid 2007 at TED. BumpTop is a user interface that takes the usual desktop metaphor to a glorious, 3-D extreme, transforming file navigation into a freewheeling playground of crumpled documents and clipping-covered “walls”. It was created as Anand Agarawala’s Masters Thesis at the University…

  • CSS Season

    Cone Trees is featured at the website design gallery CSS Season.

  • Issue with exporting multiple page click-through HTML prototype in Adobe Fireworks?

    Solution Summary: Simply deselect the ‘‘Current page only’ check box in the Export dialog window to export all pages of your Fireworks built click-through prototype.

  • The Zygote Interactive Ball by Tangible Interaction

    Summary Emitting light via internal LED lights, this lightweight helium filled orb responds to human touch – changing colour as it is punched, tapped, slapped or squeezed. Zygote at Building Interactive Playgrounds, Florence, Italy Zygote At SIGCHI Vancouver Zygote at Sensation White ’08, Amsterdam (As put by Tangible Interaction- the creators of Zygote) Zygote is…

  • Jan Chipchase- Nine trends shaping the future of social interactions

    (length: 23 minutes) Moderated by Bruno Giussani, this talk by Jan Chipchase where he details the nine trends he thinks will shape the future of social interactions. He identified these trends through extensive field work he and his team are conducting around the world. Jan’s work shows how the digital devices are creating new practices…

  • Cone Trees on AllTop User Interface- home to top UI news

    Cone Trees is now featured along with other fabulous websites on user interface design at AllTop’s User Interface category.

  • AllTop

    Cone Trees is now featured in the user interface section along with other user experience authorities of the Guy Kawasaki’s popular AllTop.

  • Talks by Vilayanur Ramachandran: A journey to the center of your mind & Art and the Brain

    Vilayanur Ramachandran: A journey to the center of your mind (Length: 24 minutes) Vilayanur Ramachandran tells us what brain damage can reveal about the connection between celebral tissue and the mind, using three startling delusions as examples. V.S. Ramachandran is the director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California, San…

  • Only 4% of the World Wide Web Web standards compliant in 2008

    Opera used MAMA— their ‘Metadata Analysis and Mining Application’ to trawl the web and returns results detailing page structures, including what HTML, CSS, and script is used on it, as well as whether the HTML validates. For example, it found out that only 4.13% of all sites on the World Wide Web are web standards…

  • What other disciplines does Interaction Design overlap with?

    I think this diagram very well describes the other disciplines interaction design overlaps with.