The first rule of designing for night time use is: Do NOT use blue, because it destroys your night vision. Red is much better.
Ford’s been making cars for longer than anyone. Certainly they have people who know about this. Why then?
Or is the difference between colors on night vision overstated?
I don’t really know what to make of this one. It’s fun that people are breaking with tradition. Real buttons perform better than touch screens and I’m sure expert users can write faster with fewer errors on this device, than say a touch screen with the same size. So, if you’re a secretary taking notes for a boss that walks around a lot, maybe this is something for you.
For the rest of us, having to learn a new keyboard layout is just too much to ask. Most of us know the alphabet as one long row, and when you break it up into three rows we have genuine difficulties finding characters. That’s why alphabetic layouts fail.
Frequency based layouts, where you have the most common characters in the middle fail for another reason. Coming from Sweden, I typically switch a lot between writing in Swedish and English. If I had two different layouts I would make mistakes all the time. The same is increasingly true in many other places as english is becoming the de facto world standard language.
Meet the Tribe at PayPal’s annual developer event and experience innovative user interface demos that might end up on your device in a year or two. TAT is the user interface company that enabled the UI for PayPal’s iPhone application.
“PayPal chose TAT to design the user interface for the PayPal Mobile for iPhone application because they turn sophisticated online applications into attractive and easy to use mobile applications,” said Laura Chambers, Senior Director of PayPal Mobile.
Experience novel solutions like TAT Home – an Android home screen replacement, 2D/3D enabled features like Horizon Maps and Lists, and more. TAT will exhibit in booth S15 on the show floor and if you would like to book a meeting with TAT at the conference, please e-mail Mr. Bill Beltz at bill.beltz@tat.se
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TAT’s Hampus Jakobsson, Vice President of Business Development and Co-founder, will speak at the upcoming Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco, CA, November 8–10, 2010. Hampus, an acclaimed speaker in the mobile space, brings fresh insights into current trends in user experiences and innovative user interfaces.
At the upcoming Open Mobile Summit Hampus will address the topic: “Connected Devices and the Invisible UI: New Revenue Opportunities Across the Ecosystem”
Hampus will discuss what is happening in the connected electronics space, with focus on these key aspects:
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Since launching in 2008, The Open Mobile Summit has quickly become the definitive industry Summit for leaders of the new converged mobile economy. Together we will build and monetize the open mobile Internet.
This November, 500 world-leaders from operators, handset and consumer electronics manufacturers, to Internet giants, media and publishing firms, ad agencies and application developers will meet in San Francisco to explore the future.
It’s not often that you get the heads of these great and diverse industries – from the VP to the C-level – together in one room. The result is a high-octane discussion that will shed light on future opportunities in the converged ecosystem. Not to mention powerful networking possibilities.
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Amazing!
Put this in a car, and then customize the interface to minimize interruptions while I’m stressed out. Hold all calls. And flash a hush sign to silence passengers. This could make driving a bit safer.
More at MIT.
At the SAE Convergence Conference and Exhibition, TAT will show HMI demos in the QNX Connected Car as well as in the Freescale MadMax car. SAE Convergence is held in Detroit, USA on the 19–20th of October 2010.
For over 30 years, the Convergence® Conference and Exhibition has served the automotive and transportation electronics community by delivering relevant technology solutions and an electrifying line-up of invited speakers and presenters addressing “hot-button” topics. Taking place biennially in Detroit, Michigan – right in the heart of the global automotive technical center – Convergence has earned world-wide recognition as the premier transportation electronics event attracting leading executives, engineers and technologists from around the globe.
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Moreover, TAT’s James Haliburton will speak at the SID Vehicles and Photons Symposium being held in Dearborn, MI, USA on October 21st 2010. James will speak on the topic “Creating engaging HMIs”
Cars are, in essence, personal mobile devices. More than simply a means of transportation, they are also vehicles of communication and entertainment. Drivers are not just drivers, they are becoming “users” – a term found far more frequently within the mobile software industry. While driving, these users are actively downloading content, engaging in complex entertainment services, having social experiences and much more. All of this behavior takes place in a multitude of contexts and situations depending on when and where a user has driven.
James will address these four areas in his talk:
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I think the timing for Fabian’s ideas are really good. I would love to have my phone be flat in my pocket, and thick enough to give me a really good grip when I hold it. Holding my iPad at the thin end of the wedge feels really dangerous. I’d much rather handle expensive fragile devices with thick wedged edges.
The weight shifting technique is really interesting, but definitely farther away. If you expand the device when it’s in your hand, you have extra room to move stuff around. The battery is usually responsible for most of the weight, so if you could move that around you wouldn’t have to add a dedicated weight.
But I would be worried about dropping a weight shifting shape changing device.
Maybe this would fit better in a TV game controller, where you have a better grip, and where you have more room inside.
Anyway, great work Fabian.
As usual, filming a 3D Stereoscopic screen with a one camera lens does not do it justice. So the chameleon looks blurry, but I’m sure it looked great at the fair.
What caught my attention in this piece was the force of the haptics in the pen. It looks like it really kicks you in the hand. I’m still not sure how well finger touch works on stereoscopic screens, where you may need to interact with things that appear to be a few centimeters behind the screen. Maybe a pen can help you get the most out of such a screen.
Original article here.
TAT The Astonishing Tribe today announced that Fujitsu Japan will reveal a ground breaking dual screen mobile phone user interface (UI) powered by TAT’s design and technology initiatives. TAT was chosen by Fujitsu for its capabilities in innovative UI design and its cutting-edge UI technology for realization of the futuristic ideas on screen.
Going dual screen radically changes the user interaction and requires advanced design and a highly capable UI Framework. “Enhancing and innovating the user experience is our passion and we have enjoyed working with Fujitsu mobile phone UI engineers on this novel device.”, says Charlotta Falvin, CEO, TAT. “Our UI technology is built to effectively incorporate new design advancements, and we appreciate greatly to apply it together with an innovative team like the one at Fujitsu”.
“Fujitsu is committed to be in the fore front of mobile phone innovation and with the new dual screen interface.”, says Takeshi Ueno, Director, UI planning director, for the Mobile Phone Group of Fujitsu. “We are delighted that TAT’s UI technology enables the type of new design paradigms to create advanced UI. We are looking forward to other innovative collaborations with TAT to enrich our UI.”
The new Fujitsu mobile phone (a test model) will be showcased at CEATEC 2010 in Tokyo, Japan – October 5-9th, 2010.
This is not a product that Mozilla plan’s to build. But it has some really nice ideas that can become reality once you have two built in pico projectors and some infrared sensors.