Futuristic Car UI Concept

Matthaeus Krenn, a talented product designer from San Francisco who has come up with his own concept for a car user interface. Matthaeus turned his idea into a video, in which he presents what truly intuitive car interface should be. In his eyes, icons are dated and obsolete. Therefore, he has replaced them with finger gestures to take advantage of the touch screen technology. Depending on the number of fingers that touch the display, different functions are activated.

For instance, if you touch the screen with two fingers, you can control the volume, and when you add one more, you can change the music source. Swiping on the screen is more intuitive than staring at the small display in order to find a small button reponsible for heating. Additionally, it allows for eyes-free control so drivers could focus more on the road.

Facebook Develops A Photoshop For Interaction Design, And It’s Free For Anyone To Use

TO DESIGN THE GROUNDBREAKING APP PAPER, FACEBOOK BUILT AN IN-HOUSE IXD TOOL FIRST. AND THEN THE COMPANY SHARED IT WITH THE WORLD FOR FREE.

We’ve already waxed poetically about Facebook’s new app Paper, which reskins the bloated Facebook experience to feel like a top-tier interactive media product. The Facebook feed is reimagined as a grid of cards that put video and images first, and you can explore them through innovative gestures–like tilting your camera to pan through a panoramic photo

A simple experiment for relaxation

Tumbler, created by Andrew Hoyer, is a simple physics experiment that’s also a fantastic relaxation and meditation exercise. Sit back and watch a variety of shapes tumble around on your screen. You can set the speed at which they tumble, and choose to view with or without sound enabled. Mesmerizing…