Thoughts on Ubiquity
Ubiquity is a natural-language command line interface for the web, allowing the user to create context sensitive mash-up functionalities to existing web apps. The video above is an excellent demo for this very exciting new project from mozilla labs. For quite some time I’ve been enthusastic about the resurgence of command-driven interfaces for computing apps. While point-and-click visual...
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Alberto Alessi on Italian design I have found that in my quest for what I see as “fat free design,” I often lose sight of the life and vigor I so enjoy in creative problem solving; I become instead a very function-minded designer with too little respect for the roll that whimsy and feeling can play in my work. Alessi is the quintessencial antithesis to my tendency toward strict...
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