Humane Interface Design

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

The future of wheelchair mobility

Enough of building cheap wheelchairs. Its about time to look at building these Bionic exo-skeletal legs by the dozen. The real alternative for walking. This has been around for testing in the past two years. nd therr is another manufactures from Australia as well.
Remember to visit the link and watch a video of how patients are using these cool eLegs.

in reference to: Bionic Legs For Paraplegics? Want To Try It Out Yourself? (view on Google Sidewiki)

Thursday, November 04, 2010

Adobe ROME = Flash + PowerPoint on Steroids

The most noticeable conceptual difference between Flash and Rome is that the Scenes are now Slides metaphorically like in PowerPoint. There is a whole new way of interaction in this product. The highlight is context based interaction. That means one does not need to interact on a different panel for example to change gradient colors, one can just directly do it on the object. Does takes a slight learning curve to find things but highly intuitive. I really enjoyed the new experience coz the designers have really not taken any constraints from earlier interfaces while building the interaction. The result is a promising breath of fresh air.

in reference to: Project ROME by Adobe (view on Google Sidewiki)