User Interface

Mobile

Did You Notice These Design Changes In iOS 5?

6:30AM November 1, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

If you are an obsessive user interface jerk like me, you may have noticed the slight design changes in iOS 5. They are almost invisible but they are there, from two-pixel position adjustments to transparency changes in the badges’ shadows. More »


Computing

Intel: We Have The Recipe To Beat iPad

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11:30AM June 1, 2011 | Seamus Byrne

In a private Computex session with Gizmodo, Intel’s Francois Piednoel says he’s cracked the code on what makes the iOS experience better than the competition, and he’s spent the past few weeks teaching Taiwanese manufacturers the ‘recipe’ for success in their next generations of devices. And using last year’s Atom processors we touched a user experience that suggests he really has cracked the code. More »


Software

Multitasktures: Swipe Between Apps On Your Jailbroken iDevice

6:20AM April 14, 2011 | Adam Dachis

Multitasktures is a really neat extension for your jailbroken iDevice that lets you swipe left and right, or use various other gestures, to navigate between open apps. More »


Gadgets

In Praise Of The People Who Make Gadgets Worth Using

5:20AM February 24, 2011 | Brian Barrett

Who are the unsung heroes in every application you open, every platform you navigate? The people who lovingly crafted a user experience that makes your interactions with machines a perfectly intuitive pleasure. Assuming they’re not the ones responsible for Droid X. More »


RIM Acquires Interface Wizards The Astonishing Tribe

2:29AM December 3, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

Well isn’t this interesting. Today, RIM announced its acquisition of The Astonishing Tribe, the interface gurus played a big part in defining Android’s look in its early stages. The BlackBerrys of the future just got a whole lot prettier. More »


Keyglove Flips Traditional Touch Typing The Bird

6:00AM October 25, 2010 | Jack Loftus

There’s this scene in Children of Men where a zombified kid is playing a game using a VR harness and an interactive glove. He’s dead to the world and it’s depressing. But if was science fiction, right? Not quite: More »


Software

How Firefox 4 Will Be “Super-Duper Fast” And Powerful

2:40PM May 11, 2010 | Rosa Golijan

We’ve seen a bit of the gorgeous user interface already, but now we’ve got a slideshow explaining the vision behind the “super-duper fast” Firefox 4 browser: More »


Software

What iPad Apps Are Going To Feel Like

5:56AM February 5, 2010 | Matt Buchanan

Want to know what freshly developed apps for the iPad are going to feel like? Looking through Apple’s iPad User Experience Guidelines is surprisingly revealing. More »


Computing

The Two Wrong Ways To Make A Tablet

8:20AM February 4, 2010 | Jason Chen

Tablets today are thought to be made in one of two ways: Upsizing a smartphone or downsizing a laptop. Many of these new tablets are decent, but both methods render something less than the perfect tablet. More »


Apple Patents Touch Sensitive Bezel

9:00AM February 3, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

I hate to say I told you, but I told you: The Apple iPad is exactly what I said it was going to be except for two things: Multitasking and the touch-sensitive bezel for hot corners. Guess what Apple did. More »