UI

Computer screens in laptops, desktops and phones are now the targets for application developers yet they represent challenges as the resolution, size, among other factors. In this episode, Director of User Experience at Infragistics Dr. Komischke  describes how using Fluid UI allows…

Stardock, a company known for its UI enhancements, has just released their latest app; Fences. Fences allows you to group together desktop icons, sometimes known as 'all that garbage on your desktop', into clean-looking folder containers known as fences. Simply drag select the icons on your desktop…

Sometimes it’s the little things, you know? In the PDC session “Welcome to the Windows 7 desktop“ which was hosted by Chaitanya Sareen several new Windows 7 features were revealed. One that we didn’t see in the keynote presentation is this new “color hot-track” feature. When your mouse hovers over…

I’m sure you’ve seen docks before – the launch bars that let you start up applications with one click. For Windows users, one of the most popular docks is Rocket Dock (I use this one myself). Another favorite is Object Dock. However, I had never seen anything quite like Circle Dock before. Instead…

From Microsoft Research, there comes a new UI for your Windows desktop. Instead of simply minimizing applications or switching through them either via Alt+Tab or Windows+Tab as you do now, there’s a new task management called Microsoft Scalable Fabric that lets you interact with your windows…

The mobile interface called Smart Touch UI, designed to run on Gigabyte's GSmart Windows Mobile phones, is an innovative UI that lets you interact with your phone by pressing buttons on your phone's LCD screen as well as sliding your finger across the screen to interact with various features, like…

This is interesting - a company called SlideIt is offering you a different way to enter text on your Windows Mobile phone. Instead of picking up your stylus when entering text, you just drag it from one letter to the next without picking it up. In this way, you save...what? Microseconds? It's…

Cairo is an alternative Windows shell that will let you completely change your desktop from using the current Windows UI to a brand new system. The design team behind the project wants their shell to offer an elegant but functional alternative to the Windows desktop.  The Cairo shell offers…

Five years ago, Patrick Baudisch, a scientist at Microsoft Research who was studying human-computer interaction, started having trouble seeing what he was typing on his cell phone keypad.  Some of us would have just bought a phone with bigger buttons, but Baudisch decided to reinvent handheld…