Best GUI Design
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- gron
Hey kids,
Am doing some research and trying to track down best of class examples of GUI design. Websites, interfaces, phones, nav systems, gaming devices you name it.
Specifically looking for designs that appeal on every level- communication, clarity, ease of use and experience.
Any help would be appreciated!
- stewdio0
Xerox Star
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xer…The Lisa, Macintosh, Windows, etc all descend from this. (Which in turn was influenced by research at Douglas Engelbart's ARC lab.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dou…
- Amicus0
I dunno if you'd class this as a GUI, but I love the ideas behind this eMag prototype.
- dmay0
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- lukus_W0
This might be an abstract way of examining the problem - but it could be useful to research ways of interacting with information that don't involve computing.
For example, I think it's nice to think of a book as an example of an interface that's stood the test of time.
* It has a cover which creates differentiation between titles and allows for easy identification.
* A spine which allows it to be identified in-situ.
* A blurb on the back cover provides summary information.
* It has an index for locating specific content
* Progress can be judged in a visual and tactile sense, by examining how many page precede / proceed the current page.
* It's portableetc., etc.
- gron0
Thanks guys - Some interesting thoughts here (and some silly ones) :)
Any more contemporary work or studios I should check out?
- PIZZA0
Set up a 4 player game of Perfect Dark N64
now set up a 4 player game of Halo 2now shout at the screen because the morons behind Halo 2 couldn't just copy the design genius of the Perfect Dark multiplayer menu.
- Frosty_spl0
I like the windows phone 7 gui.
- looks nice in press shots, but imagine it with a real world photo album supplying backgroundsPIZZA
- d_rek0
This is a great site for lots of nicely designed UI elements:
http://patterntap.com/