BumpTop Prototype: a physics based desktop UI
June 16th, 2006 by Scott Janousek
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All I can is wow.
This is perhaps one of the most intuitive desktop UI’s I’ve ever seen … reminds me of Yugop’s physics based business card app.
BumpTop is not a product (yet), strictly research. But still, this would be one sweet desktop UI if Microsoft or Apple picked it up (I think you can guess which the authors favor from the video).
Here is the research paper.
June 16th, 2006 at 5:27 pm
As awesome as that is, it’s kind of funny that we’ve come full circle to a virtual desk piled with papers.
June 16th, 2006 at 5:38 pm
I know what you mean.
I imagine if my desktop translated into that UI … it’d probably be a pile of files and folders all over the place … but I’d probably be more apt to clean it up since it would look more like a messy room.
June 16th, 2006 at 6:22 pm
[...] Today, almost by mistake (while having a look at the BumpTop interface paper as pointed by Scott Janousek here) I finally found a research paper that’s exactly about this very subject. To quote: User interfaces are often based on static presentations—a series of displays each showing a new state of the system. Typically, there is much design that goes into the details of these tableaux, but less thought is given to the transitions between them. Visual changes in the user interface are sudden and often unexpected, surprising users and forcing them to mentally step away from their task in order to grapple with understanding what is happening in the interface itself. [...]
June 17th, 2006 at 1:24 pm
Thank’s for the great info.
Here’s yugop’s work you mentioned
http://www.intentionallies.co.jp/
June 17th, 2006 at 2:46 pm
Really impressive, loved the idea of making an item heavier! Might be even better if it comes with some enviroment sounds like the heavier item hitting on the desk
June 19th, 2006 at 1:12 pm
Nikita, thanks … I was about to copy one of the many “knockoffs” on the web, but didn’t … I do think he was the first to implement this idea with Flash though.
June 22nd, 2006 at 5:19 pm
really impressive. When we go to be able to test?