user interface design —
It was a few weeks ago that it hit me: we really need much bigger monitors for our computers. How much bigger? Well, I’m talking LCD displays that are, say, 70 inches in size. The problem is - current displays don’t give us enough screen real estate to do perform tasks [...]
Bruce Eckel has written an interesting piece about Java and user interfaces. I’d recommend that you read it, as it’s pretty thought-provoking. Bruce knows a lot about Java, and a lot about software, so he’s always a good read. In this piece he covers a lot of ground, much of which is correct. [...]
After all the recent talk about Java, I thought it was worth reminding people that Java really is a super-powerful technology for creating fantastic graphical user interfaces. Here’s a neat demonstration, inspired by the Apple TV interface.
See the details of how this was put together at The Blog of Bug.
In his blog post, Continuations and GUIs, Tim Bray asserts that,
This notion, that the Web GUI is insufficiently interactive and we need something richer, is widely held among developers and almost never among actual users of computers, and it’s entirely wrong.
Here, Tim is talking about what you might call “standard” Web GUIs: things like HTML [...]