Jan Schepanski: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 09:36, 25 February 2011

Goals & Non-Goals

Goals
- make use of todays technology (higher resolutions and color depth, more memory, faster prozessors, gpu-processing) and interface elements such as drag 'n drop, (multi)touch
- forget everything about tabs, bookmarks and history
- one interface for everything - seamless browsing
Non-Goals
- do minor enhancements to the old interface
- build on top of outdated ideas

Description

there should be more. Really.

Based on an older idea: The Webtop.

File:Webtop-jan Schepanski.pdf

Animation <videoflash>kysvUDQWZYg</videoflash>

Visualisation

(older concept)

Animation

Sometime.

Idea: All in One

Toolwindows (6)

Toolwindows make no sense. No one needs extra windows so they should be inside the browser.
Toolwindows could be some kind of app. So lets redefine the following:

Window=window.open(,'name','toolbar=no,location=no,status=no,menubar=no, scrollbars=no,resizable=no,width=500,height=200')

this could mean: create an "app" which is 500x200 in pixels. This box can be moved around, snapped, dragged, dropped. It doesn't depend on anything. Its just there and does something. Maybe an online radio, a chat, an calculator. There could be an extra app-bar or somewhat.

File linking (6,7)

What happens when you click a link to media file in your browser? Yeah, it opens the file in a new tab or in the same tab. Why not open the image, video or music file in a new overlay that is always on top, movable and includes the typical controls?

Volume control (2)

Every tab should have a slider to control the volume. It also need some visual feedback, to signalize that the tab generates sound.

sleepy tabs

Tabs should go to sleep if not need to reduce cpu-power. There should be a button to prevent this behavior. See the FireFox Addon Tab Bar.

MORE TO COME

Links

APPS (don't ignore apps - they need a fine place to breathe on your browser!)

ZUI (Zooming User Interfaces)

Zoomy Websites

Image Viewer build with Flash
Zoomable website navigation Worth a look
The Scale of the Universe
Gapminder World

Firefox Design Challenge results and other not that bad ideas

OHTER

Radial Tree - Concept sorting and displaying informations in a radial form

Articles

The Browser History

Little sketch to visualize the problem of presenting the todays non-linear browsing history.

Research

User Interviews.

Some Images

(Screenshot of Fences more Informations on stardock.com) Sophie, Jule, Tristan, Laura

(Screenshot of the webbrowser Safari, more Informations on Apple.com) Carlo, Johannes, Sven

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 ==Goals & Non-Goals==
+* Goals
+** make use of todays technology (higher resolutions and color depth, more memory, faster prozessors, gpu-processing) and interface elements such as drag 'n drop, (multi)touch
+** forget everything about tabs, bookmarks and history
+** one interface for everything - seamless browsing
+* Non-Goals
+** do minor enhancements to the old interface
+** build on top of outdated ideas
-Goals
+==Description==
-* make use of todays technology (higher resolutions and color depth, more memory, faster prozessors, gpu-processing) and interface elements such as drag 'n drop, (multi)touch
+there should be more. Really.
-* forget everything about tabs, bookmarks and history
-* one interface for everything - seamless browsing
-Non-Goals
-* do minor enhancements to the old interface
-* build on top of outdated ideas
-==Description==
+'''Based on an older idea: The Webtop.'''
+[[File:Webtop-jan Schepanski.pdf]]
-there should be more. really.
+Animation
+<videoflash>kysvUDQWZYg</videoflash>
 ==Visualisation==
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 ==Animation==
-[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kysvUDQWZYg Older concept on youtube].
+Sometime.
 ==Idea: All in One==
-'''Toolwindows'''
+'''Toolwindows (6)'''
 * Toolwindows make no sense. No one needs extra windows so they should be inside the browser.
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 this could mean: create an "app" which is 500x200 in pixels. This box can be moved around, snapped, dragged, dropped. It doesn't depend on anything. Its just there and does something. Maybe an online radio, a chat, an calculator. There could be an extra app-bar or somewhat.
-'''Files'''
+'''File linking (6,7)'''
 What happens when you click a link to media file in your browser? Yeah, it opens the file in a new tab or in the same tab.
 Why not open the image, video or music file in a new overlay that is always on top, movable and includes the typical controls?
+'''Volume control (2)'''
+Every tab should have a slider to control the volume. It also need some visual feedback, to signalize that the tab generates sound.
+'''sleepy tabs'''
+Tabs should go to sleep if not need to reduce cpu-power. There should be a button to prevent this behavior.
+See the FireFox Addon [https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/67651/ Tab Bar].
 MORE TO COME
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 ==Links==
-APPS
+APPS (don't ignore apps - they need a fine place to breathe on your browser!)
 * [http://www.golem.de/1012/79960.html Googles Web App Store gestartet]
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 ZUI (Zooming User Interfaces)
-* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooming_user_interface Zooming_user_interface on Wikipedia]
+* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooming_user_interface Zooming user interface on Wikipedia]
-* [http://zoomism.com/ Zoomable website navigation]
 * [http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/pivotviewer/ Microsoft Pivot]
+* [http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/piccolo/applications/autobahn/collapsed.gif Old ZUI browser based on Java]
+Zoomy Websites
 * [http://tandem.gasi.ch/ Image Viewer build with Flash]
-* [http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/piccolo/applications/autobahn/collapsed.gif Old ZUI browser concept based on Java]
+* [http://zoomism.com/ Zoomable website navigation] Worth a look
+* [http://htwins.net/scale/index.html The Scale of the Universe]
+* [http://www.gapminder.org/world/ Gapminder World]
-FIREFOX Design Challenge - not that bad ideas
+Firefox Design Challenge results and other not that bad ideas
 * [http://weizhou.wordpress.com/2008/07/07/prototype/ Lifestream – Redesign history and bookmarking – Wei Zhou]
 * [http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/designing-tab-candy/ Firefox Panorama/Tab Candy]
-[http://miyoung007.blogspot.com/2009/09/mozilla-labs-design-challenge-weave-web.html Mozilla Labs Design Challenge: Weave Web UI "Tabs and History visualizations" - Miyoung's Idea]
+* [http://miyoung007.blogspot.com/2009/09/mozilla-labs-design-challenge-weave-web.html Mozilla Labs Design Challenge: Weave Web UI "Tabs and History visualizations" - Miyoung's Idea]
-[http://www.flickr.com/photos/xa/3971374652/sizes/o/ The interconnection between sites, bookmarks, passwords..]
+* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/xa/3971374652/sizes/o/ The interconnection between sites, bookmarks, passwords..]
-[http://anilchaudhry.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/weave_design1.png Editing bookmarks]
+* [http://anilchaudhry.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/weave_design1.png Editing bookmarks]
+* [http://tabviz.org/ TabViz] Worth a look
+* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eocalPpuUs&feature=related Tab Wall vs Nodes]
 OHTER
 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radial_tree Radial Tree - Concept sorting and displaying informations in a radial form]
+Articles
+* [http://www.sigchi.org/chi96/proceedings/videos/Fertig/etf.htm Lifestreams: An Alternative to the Desktop Metaphor]
+* [http://drum.lib.umd.edu/bitstream/1903/388/2/CS-TR-3022.pdf Dynamic Queries for Visual Information Seeking]
 ==The Browser History==
 [[File:History.png]]
 Little sketch to visualize the problem of presenting the todays non-linear browsing history.
+==Research==
+[[IFD:Designing For Action/Nutzerforschung/JanInterviews|User Interviews]].
 ==Some Images==
 [[File:Fences.JPG]]