More GUI Madness - Microsoft Research
Microsoft Research's Visualization and Interaction for
Business and Entertainment group has some really interesting projects to
salivate over. Nothing revolutionary here, at least nothing they provide any
detailed information on.
- Multiblending
- a better way to do transparency of GUI elements that maintains readability -
the screenshot
from Photoshop is pretty rockin'
- Flat
Volume Control - volume control that is centralized/delegated and
software-based for all applications - finally (Flash
demo - 5.6MB)
- High
Density Cursor - another seemingly obvious but cool improvement -
creates motion-blur cursors to help your eyes see where the cursor in-between
the frames normally rendered by the GUI (Flash
demo - 32KB)
- Drap-and-Pop
- makes drag-and-drop easier by popping possible destinations closer to where
you are starting from. Less instrusive than it sounds (Flash
demo - 185KB)
Posted by brett at March 4, 2004
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