UX Australia is Australia’s premier user experience design conference, that took place in Canberra, on August 26-28. The conference encompassed many aspects of user experience design, including core topics such as information architecture, interaction design, information design, content, visual design & strategy as well as the design of physical objects.
Itsme was invited to the conference in order to show the work done by the interaction design team.
The presentation started contextualizing the innovation potential of Itsme and the “stories and venues” metaphor with reference to the traditional OS, up to the description of the basic conceptual aspects of Itsme.
Then, moving from...
There's some truth in the Czechoslovakian proverb I used for the title of this post, as we've been recently discussing in designing how to deal with security issues in itsme OS. We realized there's a huge amount of possibilities and of different factors influencing strategies that can be adopted, and (in our case) they're multiplied by the fact that we're designing a complex system, with a lot of potentially vulnerable points. I won't go into technical details, but just present the main points our discussion started from. It seems that all existing operating systems are not entirely secure, and they're...
HTC Hero is the third Android powered device presented on the market but is the first huge customization of Android.
HTC Sense, this is what the new interface is called. It has a number of interesting features, but what i liked most is the new people/contact handler.
HTC introduces relation between the person and his interactions with other people, in fact from your address book you can look for a friend and get all the email, sms related to that contact, but also stay in touch with the social networks that you prefer, like facebook and flickr. So you can have all...
ITSME INTERFACE DEVELOPMENT
Thanks to the work that the Interaction Design Team has started in the last three weeks on refining the interface qualities of the venue, including graphical and behavioral aspects, (you can find the related post here), the ID team presented the first outputs during the last iterative session with Software Development Team: the first release of itsme GUI package.
The work focused at first on the refinement of the venue graphic user interface, as the core element of the itsme concept and then converged in the consolidation of dimensions and skinning of each graphic item.
In the meeting with...
VENUE IDENTITY AND BEHAVIOR
In the last week the Interaction Design Team has started refining the interface qualities of the venue, including graphical and behavioral aspects, in order to support both web emulator and first prototype development.
(to get a quick recap on Venue and related design activity visit the "interaction design highlights" section on project page)
Main topics addressed by the initial experiments range from the behavior of single elements of a venue such as tabs, buttons, columns status and cinematic etc. to the relations between different venues and between the venues and the overall visual interaction environment.
Visual triggers, appropriateness of visual ...
A small update about Itsme interactive website :- Today Serena showed us the graphics that she has planned for the new interactive website (due this march). We all discussed about some minor details, to make it a bit more user friendly, so people can enjoy it even more.
While we were at it, i discovered this new book "Designing web interfaces: Principles and patterns for rich interactions". The two pieces of information are not related but i thought i will share it with you anyway.
The book has been recently released and is written by Bill Scott and Theresa Neil. This...
