FancyBox - fancy image zooming tool
The Mind Mapping Software Weblog
InformationTamers.com, a web site created by the developers of Topicscape, a 3-D mind mapping software program, walks the reader through concise and engaging analysis of different information management solutions, and their strengths and weaknesses. Here are a few highlights: Indexing software: This genre of programs indexes the contents of your computer's hard drive and then enables you to conduct keyword searches it. This type of software was of limited use to the author because it was hard to come up with a precise search term that would deliver the results he was looking for. Like using a web search engine, these indexing programs often returned too many irrelevant results. Mind mapping/concept mapping software: These tools moved information management into the realm of a “visual road map,” which made it easier to “see” pieces of information and how they fit into the larger whole.
FancyZoom 1.
Update: Version 1.1 released 2/8/08. Good bug fixes + Opera compatibility! ...so I fought back the charging Guanaco, immediately hopped on my paraglider, and basically caught the first flight out of Chile — but not without dealing with some cantankerous customs inspectors while drinking a cool glass of chicha. Really sorry it took so long! But hey, two years later, it's finally done! Smooth Javascript Image Zooming For Your Web Pages This much-requested chunk of Javascript to zoom images inline, originally written for this blog but later rolled out to the Panic website and used for screenshots, is now polished up, bug-fixed, available for you to use on your website! Designed to view full-size photos and images inline without requiring a separate web page load, FancyZoom's raison d’être (French for "raisin-determination") is providing a smooth, clean, truly Mac-like effect, almost like it's a function of Safari itself. Instructions 1 Download the FancyZoom package, right here: 5Whoah. Example
carte heuristique
Wikipedia est un outil génial mais qui souffre, à mon avis, d'un moteur de recherche "à la google" peu adapté pour naviguer dans la richesse du corpus disponible. Nous avons peut être trouvé enfin le graal. Wikimindmap est un moteur de recherche sur Wiki qui affiche les résultats sous forme de Mind Map (carte heuristique). Prenons l'exemple d'une recherche sur Royal. un clic sur Ségoléne Royal ouvre une autre carte :
Zooming User Interfaces -- NYU Media Research Lab
For the last decade the MRL has lead research efforts in Zooming User Interfaces (ZUIs). These interfaces create an intuitive information landscape - the user moves "further away" to get an overview, or "closer" for more detail, while keeping a sense of orientation and structure that traditional "pop-up" windows and dialogues can't match. Following Ken Perlin's initial "Pad" project (and patent with Prof. Jack Schwartz), a number of systems have been developed. Ongoing MRL work in this area includes ZUIs for the web and handheld devices, with uses ranging from complex software controls to authoring and reading structured documents. Zooming Pad Demo Pad Web Navigation Demo Patents PAD patent
The rise of Zooming User Interfaces | In usability we trust
The first time I ever read anything about Zooming User Interfaces was when I was reading The Humane Interface by Jef Raskin, where he introduced the concept of Zoom World, a whole OS based on a Zooming User Interface (ZUI). Of course this wasn’t my first encounter with this type of user interface since I’ve, among other things, been using Interactive maps like Google Maps. But it was the first time that I started considering a Zooming Interface a viable alternative to the traditional interaction idioms. In this article I will explore some of the Zooming User Interfaces out there today and also take a sneak peak of what’s around the corner. Why Zooming User Interfaces Consider this. The maze in this analogy are applications today, confined inside the constraints of the desktop metaphore. Through the evolution of man we’ve relied on recognizing landmarks as means to find our way around. Are ZUI’s difficult to use or hard to understand? Examples of ZUI’s Prezi Seadragon DeepZoom Mooncake Example
Zooming user interface
Example of a ZUI When the level of detail present in the resized object is changed to fit the relevant information into the current size, instead of being a proportional view of the whole object, it's called semantic zooming.[1] Some experts consider the ZUI paradigm as a flexible and realistic successor to the traditional windowing GUI, being a Post-WIMP interface. But little effort is currently spent developing ZUIs, while there are ongoing efforts for developing other types of GUIs. History[edit] GeoPhoenix, a Cambridge, MA, startup associated with the MIT Media Lab, founded by Julian Orbanes, Adriana Guzman, Max Riesenhuber, released the first mass-marketed commercial Zoomspace in 2002-3 on the Sony CLIÉ PDA handheld, with Ken Miura of Sony In 2006, Hillcrest Labs introduced the HoME television navigation system, the first graphical, zooming interface for television.[5] ZUI projects[edit] Eagle Mode’s file manager displaying plain text source code directories See also[edit] References[edit]
