Monthly Archives: April 2007

Interface as a Conflict of Ideologies

Full essay PDF: Interface as a Conflict of Ideologies / Mushon Zer-Aviv (April 2007) Preface In the past 50 years User-Interface has become a major field of cultural production, since the innovations of Douglas Engelbart in the sixties (mouse/keyboard/video-screen) through the personal computer revolution in the eighties to the rise of the World Wide Web in the [...]
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Wikiality

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Highlights Space

Just finished the design for the new Highlights space which I will develop with two of our Open-Source community members, Avital Oliver and Dudu Buchbut. User Scenario: The user launches the space through the shift-menu The Highlights tool-bar opens allowing the user to: highlight by drag+drop on text (the cursor changes to this icon) repeat the highlight action [...]
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Trails – the story so far (+)

Trails is the upcoming main addition to ShiftSpace it is an an interface for mapping information in the world of ShiftSpace. the idea is that shift (ShiftSpace annotations/interventions/user-generated-content) left on different pages will be trailed together into information maps. We have been drafting tons of mockups, trying to figure out how should it work, what would [...]
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Love Song to the Copy+Paste

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