Thanks to techcrunch.com I have found this interesting example of a new interaction for the iPhone. The idea is to offer a new way to select the pages of your home screen: some users use to have lots of pages of application and if you are on the first one…going to screen nr.9 it’s just a pain in the ass. So this Swedish design house, called Ocean Observation, have come out with a concept I think that this concept has the...

This is really amazing: your desktop becomes a 3D space, like your room. I appreciated the perspective they have chosen and the idea of having a wall where you can hang up things. Take a look also at how you can crop pictures: nice. I hope to see ideas like this more often in the...

An interesting application that makes a good use of the iPhone interaction...

Nowadays, when usability sounds a little bit old fashioned. But it still gives interaction designers very good challenges. I was a design a form where the user could select his arrival time. The old solution from which my design started, used a dropdown menu with 24 hour time format. You had 1.00 to 24.00. I thought that I should have had to look into alternatives to a long list of values. The first thing I considered was the a second...

credit: karabehrens, flickr.com In his interesting article on techcrunch.com, Erick Schonfeld explores the new scenario of real-time search. Twitter and instant blogging are a consequence, and the result, of how we use technology and how technology is changing our lifestyles. Among these transformations, Schonfeld includes a series of new search engines (OneRiot, Collecta that are trying to address the need of real time search. Real-time...

Some days ago I was having a look at monster.com, a website for job posting and carrer development. It has a new cool design that I had not explored yet. I think the visual is pretty solid and well-done: the search box lets you choose between your country (the domain you are surfing on, e.g. dot com for the US) or the rest of the world. And it worked quite well for me (even though I am Italian and changed domain on purpose). However, since...