Monthly Archives: December 2008

With the launch of HP’s TouchSmart and TX2 computers, I’m occasionally asked what a purely touchscreen system would be like for a desktop. (It’s rumored that Jeff Han of Perceptive Pixel is currently working on one, and of course, the iPhone, Instinct, Dare, et al have touchscreen OSes for mobile.) With the publication of my book Designing Gestural Interfaces last week, I thought I would discuss what some desktop concepts could be like. Continue reading Concept: Desktop Touchscreen System >>

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On December 9, 1968, 40 years ago today, Doug Engelbart unleashed The Mother of All Demos onto an unsuspecting world. Continue reading The Mother of All Demos Turns 40 >>

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It’s that time of year when magazines and pundits start putting together their Best of Year lists. Amateur pundits that we are, we decided to do one for the blogs we liked. Continue reading The Best Design Blogs of 2008 >>

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• The jackhammering behind our office is awesome. Sigh. #
• A 20′ Multitouch Wall in Three Weeks: http://nuigroup.com/log/dubaiwall20/ #
• Ball-it is cool: a ball-like remote control device you gesture with. http://icanhaz.com/ball-it (thanks @chadt!) #
• We just cracked 300 (307!) subscribers to our RSS feed! Thanks for reading!

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For all of you aspiring shoe designers out there, swing by the Fluevog store in the Haight tomorrow and bring a drawing of your dream shoe. Fluevog is hosting a party to honor the latest winner of their Open Source

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UPDATE: I updated this diagram in 2009 for the second edition of Designing for Interaction that addresses some of the shortcomings I note below. The diagram now looks like this (click for larger image):

Like almost nothing I’ve done, a model that I put in my first book

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Amazon has started to deliver copies of my new book Designing Gestural Interfaces and the book will supposedly be on shelves tomorrow. In honor of that, I’m releasing some drawings my friend Rachel Glaves did for the book, suitable for using in documentation. Especially useful for those of us… Continue reading Touchscreen Stencils >>

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