Archive for the ‘User Experience’ Category

After posting a short time ago about the Windows Mobile 7 UX flow prototypes, I thought I would post a couple of other findings from UX/UI design company Jeremiah referenced named, SectionSeven (who has one of the coolest portfolio sites I’ve ever seen). These projects are fairly vague in reference, but this post is all about the visuals, so I’ll let them speak for themselves. Feel free to discuss!

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A few things to note about the image above, there are a couple of comment bubbles that provide some relevant information:

“A set of 9 prototype CD sleeves for a Microsoft product group … each principle is illustrated using only a pile of pebbles. Pebbles represent all the little pieces of a person’s life [and] these pebbles were all placed and arranged by hand – pebble by pebble.”

Ouch, that last part sounds like a real painstaking process. They sure did produce some great-looking results, though!

-Stephen
http://www.msftkitchen.com

Here’s an interesting Microsoft Education project I ran across. Created for Microsoft by Daniele Monti, UX/UI designer at Zerofiftyfive Interactive, the Microsoft Electronic Textbook appears to be quite an ambitious concept. Possible Courier application? Maybe not, but in a world where the Courier is cost-effective enough, I could certainly see this application running on one in an educational capacity. Imagine, every student with their very own Courier and an application like this to store all of their reading materials, assignments, homework, in-class recordings, and more. In theory, this could be like OneNote on steroids for the classroom. Pretty cool idea! Anyway, on to the screen shots (click the smaller ones for larger versions of them):

Microsoft Electronic Textbook Concept

Please feel free to chime in on what you think of this concept. Speculation is always fun. =)

-Stephen
http://www.msftkitchen.com

Ron George is once again putting out a product of his innovation, but this one isn’t just informational or theoretical, it’s something you can play with… and it’s free. They’re called Gesturcons and, in the words of Ron from an email to me, “[t]hey are helpful to any designer that is attempting to get into this space.” I don’t want to say too much about them here, because his explanation of his creation is far superior to what I could say (just short of completely copying his whole blog entry), so check out the image below, then visit the link below it to read more and download the Gesturcons Touch Pack:

 

More about Gesturcons and the Gesturcons Touch Pack 1.0 on Ron’s blog: Ron George

-Stephen
http://www.msftkitchen.com