user interfaces
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Look At The Insane Number Button Layouts Our Telephones Could Have Had
The year was 1960, and phones were changing. It was the beginning of the end for rotary dialling, and buttons were the future. But engineers faced an important, looming question: what order do you put those buttons in?
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How Android’s Multitasking Experience Could Be Even Better
Lately, I’ve been thinking about the multitasking experience on Android, and I feel like there’s still a lot to improve. I love how the thumbnails come up, but in Android 4.2.2, they made it so that the current app joined the list of “Recent Apps”. This looks great on phones and small-sized tablets, but it…
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Facebook’s Most Overlooked Design Change
Facebook showed us its new News Feed yesterday. It’s as pretty as anyone could have hoped, and it’s a wonderful update to the design. But lost in the big images and new feeds was a pretty major change that actually started weeks ago: the first thing you look at on Facebook’s page has moved.
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The Next Kinect Will Turn Everyone Into A Jedi Everywhere
Capri, the next 3D sensor by the makers of Microsoft Kinect, will bring precise, fast motion tracking to everything — laptops, TVs, lifts, robots and appliances. Basically, it will turn everyone into Jedis or wizards, allowing you to casually wave your hand to make machines do whatever you want.