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UI Firm Demos Page-Turning Windows 7 Tablet Interface

2010/08/02 00:49
design

Leading user interface designers UI Centric today announced details and first images of their upcoming tablet computing interface for Windows 7 devices – codenamed Macallan.

The Macallan user interface (UI) is designed from scratch specifically for tablet/slate form-factor devices. As a purpose built tablet UI it is not an adaptation of a desktop or mobile phone operating system UI. It aims to offer the most intuitive and responsive user experience of any tablet device.

Major benefits over other tablet device user interfaces include:

Native multitasking
Adobe Flash support
USB and memory card support
Camera and video chat functionality

Macallan will be available under a licensing model to hardware manufacturers targeting Microsoft Windows 7 or Windows 7 Embedded Compact. As a comprehensive "off-the-shelf" solution, it will empower manufacturers to easily and affordably offer a next generation multi-touch user experience. The first device from a major manufacturer’s to run Macallan will debut in Q3 2010 (more details to be available in a future announcement).

source User Interface for Microsoft Windows 7 tablet devices

microsoft, UI, UI Centric, windows 7

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Microsoft Innovation

2010/06/09 15:08
design

Description:
Corporate Video for Microsoft Office Labs.

play “healthcare”

Credits:
Director: Mason Nicoll
Director of Photography: Tim Hudson
VFX Supervisor: Adam Avitable
Line Producer: Ellen Stafford

Creative Director: Mason Nicoll
Designer: Mason Nicoll, Hiroshi Endo
Lead Animator/Compositor: Hiroshi Endo, Christian DeCastrio
Visual Effects: Look Effects
Editor: Jason Webb
Sound Designer: Mark Walk
Executive Producer: Ellen Stafford (The Captain)
Production Coordinator: Clay Spakrs

GUI, healthcare, innovation, microsoft, ms health, UI

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Microsoft Research working on portable Surface

2010/03/03 11:47
design

By Donald Melanson

posted Mar 2nd 2010 5:37PM

Microsoft's Surface has managed to carve out a small niche for itself, but there's only so many places that a large, touchscreen installation can find a home (a yacht, for instance). Microsoft Research seems to be aware of that, and it's apparently been hard at work on a more portable Surface for some time now. As you can see above (and in the video after the break), the so-called Mobile Surface would rely on a combination of a projector and a camera (and mobile phone, in this instance), which would offer about the same level of interaction as a regular Surface, and even a few advantages -- like being able to use a pair of drumsticks to play the drums. If this all seems a little familiar, it should, as Light Blue Optics and others have already employed nearly identical systems to turn any surface into a touchscreen display. Curiously, Microsoft Research has since pulled the Mobile Surface page from its website, but you can find all the pertinent details by diving into the links below.