Actionscript Artist » UI Design/Usability http://www.actionscriptartist.com Design, create, and develop. Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:33:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Tap is the New Click http://www.actionscriptartist.com/ui-design-and-usability/tap-is-the-new-click/ http://www.actionscriptartist.com/ui-design-and-usability/tap-is-the-new-click/#comments Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:01:05 +0000 Anders http://www.actionscriptartist.com/?p=95 I found a great video on touch user interfaces (or TUI’s). It took place at NYC IxDA and the speaker is Dan Saffer, who is the author of Designing for Interaction: Creating Smart Applications and Clever Devices.

Some key notes that I took from this video are as follows:

  • 1. Avoid putting essential features or information like a label below an interface element that can be touched, as it may become hidden by the user’s own hand.
  • 2. Aim to have targets at least 11mm big. The iphone’s keyboard gets away with less by using adaptive targets that become bigger when the program and predict the next letter to by typed.
  • 3. The more complicated the gesture, the fewer people who will be able to perform it. The complexity of the gesture should match the complexity of the task. The best, most natural design, then, are those that match the behavior of the system to the gesture humans might already do to enable that behavior.

I was also able to find the slides for this presentation. They are located here.

]]> http://www.actionscriptartist.com/ui-design-and-usability/tap-is-the-new-click/feed/ 0 Swedish Armed Forces – Special Officer Academy http://www.actionscriptartist.com/inspirational-flash-creations/swedish-armed-forces-%e2%80%93-special-officer-academy/ http://www.actionscriptartist.com/inspirational-flash-creations/swedish-armed-forces-%e2%80%93-special-officer-academy/#comments Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:09:10 +0000 Anders http://www.actionscriptartist.com/?p=101 Do you have what it takes to become a special officer in the Swedish Armed Forces? Even if you are not inclined toward the military, this site is still worth exploring. It plays out as a game where you complete numerous tasks while seeing how you fare against other participants.

The game play and game physics and user interface are truly outstanding. A great use of 3D, which I’m guessing is probably Papervision3D. Click the image to open application.

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