quixotically crusading for
Super Powers
—immediate satisfaction, direct manipulation,full screens, single pages—
for the masses.
Image Searching
An interface to Google Images. The one that started it all when it caused a stir. No longer under development though. |
Text and Image Searching
A rethinking of the whole searching interface. Imagery's heir. |
Dictionary
An interface to RAE's Spanish dictionary. |
(that is, innovative scraping of your favorite webapps)
If the visual task is contrast, comparison, and choice—as so often it is—then the more relevant information within eyespan, the better. Vacant, low-density displays, the dreaded posterization of data spread over pages and pages, require viewers to rely on visual memory—a weak skill. |
We will come to think of interface design as a kind of art form—perhaps the art form of the next century. Steven Johnson, Interface Culture, p213 More extracts from the book: Synthesis and Sense-making, People who get hooked on computers |
The way that you accomplish tasks with a product—what you do and how it responsds—that's the interface.. [And] as far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product. Jef Raskin, The Humane Interface, p2 and 5 More extracts from the book: Modeless & Monotonous, Deep Digressions |