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Web-App. Living. A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design. So, here's a Vision Of The Future that's popular right now.
It's a lot of this sort of thing. As it happens, designing Future Interfaces For The Future used to be my line of work. I had the opportunity to design with real working prototypes, not green screens and After Effects, so there certainly are some interactions in the video which I'm a little skeptical of, given that I've actually tried them and the animators presumably haven't. But that's not my problem with the video. My problem is the opposite, really — this vision, from an interaction perspective, is not visionary. This matters, because visions matter. This little rant isn't going to lay out any grand vision or anything. Before we think about how we should interact with our Tools Of The Future, let's consider what a tool is in the first place. I like this definition: A tool addresses human needs by amplifying human capabilities. That is, a tool converts what we can do into what we want to do.
That's right! Understanding Information Architecture by Peter Morville on Prezi. 13 Simple Ways to Stay Efficient While You Work. In a constantly digital life, optimizing your workflow is one of the easiest and most effective ways to bolster your productivity.
Plus, finding new ways to complete old tasks can help you pull yourself out of a rut while saving tons of precious time. Sometimes the littlest of changes can have a tremendous impact on how you do your job, so look below for 13 simple ways to stay efficient while you work: Stay at inbox zero As TNW’s managing editor Brad McCarty wrote, emails are the lifeblood of most businesses, but they’re also a nightmare to manage. Different management techniques work for everyone, but we found that these 7 steps towards inbox zero are exactly what many people need to take back control of their email. ➤ How to get to inbox zero every day Share screenshots & files CloudApp lets you instantly upload screenshots as you take them for easy sharing.
. ➤ CloudApp Manage social media ➤ Hootsuite & 50 free social media tools Write, distraction-free. Microsoft Word is cumbersome, inefficient, and obsolete. It’s time for it to die. Image from Wikipedia.
Nearly two decades and several text-handling paradigms ago, I was an editorial assistant at a weekly newspaper, where a few freelancers still submitted their work on typewritten pages. Stories would come in over the fax machine. If the printout was clear enough, and if our giant flatbed scanner was in the mood, someone would scan the pages in, a text-recognition program would decipher the letters, and we would comb the resulting electronic file for nonsense and typos. If the scanner wasn't in the mood, we would prop up the hard copy beside a computer and retype the whole thing. Technology was changing fast, and some people were a few steps slow. Nowadays, I get the same feeling of dread when I open an email to see a Microsoft Word document attached. It took years for me to get to this point. DeckPub – Publishing platform for tablets. Over the past couple of months the good people of Gesture Theory has been working hard on a better way to publish to the iPad and iPhone.
Their first alpha release of DeckPub, gives people the ability to create a simple touchscreen web application based on pre-defined templates. It was limited in what it could do but it gave them an understanding on how people could use DeckPub’s decks. Based on those observations they recently released in public beta. DeckPub is one of the latest in a line of web-based publication apps to facilitate an alternative to native iOS apps. The discussion surrounding the HTML5 vs. Via. Farewell, App Store? Netizine Turns Magazines Into Social Networks, Runs On HTML5. As e-book publishers and Apple face an antitrust lawsuit over pricing, magazine publishers are now looking into an alternative solution to the digital pricing dilemma: being able to extricate themselves from Apple’s grip entirely. A startup called Netizine, makers of a new, tablet-ready social magazine platform for publishers is currently in talks with seven of the ten top global publishers, we’re told, including three of the top five in the U.S.
And what is Netizine offering? Only a fully functional, HTML5-based tablet application that turns digital magazines into social networks…networks that run outside the App Store, that is. Magazine publishers’ efforts, to date, have been a mixed bag. Some are OK, while others have been pretty awful, basically turning their content into slow and heavy apps that take up more than their fair share of the iPad’s disk space.
Enter Netizine. “I’m a big consumer of Flipboard, but I do not define that as a social magazine.” he says.
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