SUPPLE: Automatically Generating User Interfaces
By dantesoft. Monday, 1. December 2008, 09:20:33
Originally posted by Aza Rask:
It’s ironic (and predicable) that the interfaces SUPPLE comes up with for dexterity/visually impaired people are just better interfaces than the controls. The optimized interfaces almost always display more information in a way that requires less clicking than the original interfaces. No wonder they perform better! It’s just a direct application of Fitts’s law and GOMs analysis.
One interesting thing to call out: The interfaces for SUPPLE are defined by schematic intent, not by layout. The computer translates a user-flow markup into an actual interface. We’ll probably see a lot more of this as we need to design web sites for truly divergent screen-sizes (computer, mobile, wall screens).
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WillYum # 2. December 2008, 02:32
A good find to be sure.
OmegaJunior # 16. December 2008, 16:21
It will take the software interface designers some balls though, to allow a 3rd-party application to take over the design of "their" application.
And I don't see this coming to serve us on the commercial web at all, where designs are generally made by overpaid company directors who are more interested in broadcasting their commercial rather than helping their visitors reach the content they seek...
WillYum # 16. December 2008, 19:18
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