Professor Hiroshi Ishii of the Tangible Media Group at MIT is no longer satisfied with existing technology. In an attempt to do something truly interesting, he is devoting his research to a future world where Radical Atoms can be controlled by a computer, and brought to life in 3D.
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Good wireframing tools can save time and make sure everyone’s ideas are incorporated in the final product. There are a plethora of tools available, however a core set of tools seems to be used by most designers. They help save time on software development and web development projects, and result in thought-out and well-designed systems.
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When building custom software, a user interface designer will progress through several levels of skill development. Similar to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, each lower level must be fulfilled before a designer can progress to the next plateau. The question is – where does the pyramid end, and where is it right to draw the line as to the responsibility of the UI designer?
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Reading the recent TOCHI (Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction), a group of researchers developed yet another automatic user-interface generation tool, this time for the smart computing space. Reasoning that there will soon be an explosion of software in the “Internet of things,” these brave souls ventured to create a “one size fits all” approach to the controllers, so that User Interface designers would no longer have to be a part of the development team.
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