I ran across this “Pencil” plug-in for firefox that lets you create quick UI mock-ups of both windows-type or web applications. I’m on vacation right now so i will wait to try it. It should be useful for testing multiple iteration of a design before real coding begins.
More “Minority Report” type UX… It makes my arms tired just looking at it but this is interesting in that the images are somehow projected into space.
Read the article.
The video:
Obscura VisionAire Interface
Deeplinking.net has a great post with examples of paper prototypes and UI sketches including the amazing video below.
People have been sketching user interfaces since the birth of the web (possibly even before) but the sketches usually stay locked away in old notebooks and discarded bar napkins in Austin, Texas. Many of the websites we use started out as scrawlings, and with people like Jakob Nielsen and Bill Buxton spreading the gospel of faster, cheaper paper prototypes, “next year’s Twitter” may already exist on paper. Read more…
Hanmail Paper Prototype