user interface
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A Bump-Covered Screen Protector Can Surprisingly Make Touchscreens React Faster To Swipes
The touchscreens used on smartphones, tablets, and wearables are leaps and bounds better than similar technologies from a few decades ago, but there’s still lots of room for improvement, as researchers have demonstrated by leveraging a bump-covered screen protector to dramatically reduce a modern touchscreen’s latency.
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Honda Follows Mazda By Ditching Some Touchscreen Controls For Not Being ‘Intuitive’
It seemed like a bit of a risk when Mazda decided to not offer a touchscreen in the new Mazda 3. But Mazda may have just been ahead of the trend, as Honda has also abandoned some reliance on the new Honda Jazz’s touch controls because they just aren’t “intuitive.”
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The Missile Alert In Hawaii Was The Result Of Bad UI Design
Last week, I got on my soapbox and chatted about user interface design fails. It turns out the weekend’s accidental missile alert in Hawaii was the result of users error that was facilitated by some poor user interface design.
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A Close Look At The Crazy Interfaces From The Avengers: Age Of Ultron
One of my favourite things about watching movies is seeing the film’s vision of the user interfaces on screens and computers. They’re almost always over the top (like they were in the first Avengers) but I love to imagine that we’ll see all those exploded graphics in our future and pretend that all that information…