First, a primer: AirDroid gives you the ability to access all of the files on your phone -- APKs, music, photos, videos and plenty more -- directly in a web app on your browser, which offers an Android-like user interface.
At the fabled Xerox Palo Alto Research Center scientists sat on beanbag chairs and dreamed up inventions like the graphical user interface for small computers and the PostScript language for printers, as well as ways to link computers within an office.
You don't need to be a user-interface guru like Don Norman to understand that, when dealing with electronic equipment, the user should always be in control.
When do you bet the company on graphical user interface, like we did with Windows?
The Touch 10 monitor also supports a capacitive stylus (purchased separately) should the user prefer a pen-like interface.
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The new user interface seems to work like a wiki, the simple collaboration system most famously used in Wikipedia, but it looks more like a Facebook or Pinterest in its prominent use of feeds and large visuals.
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He has been working on two Win8 computers with touch and finds the user interface great for snacking on applications like sports and weather, and with an Office 2013 People app that integrates content across Facebook, LinkedIn and Windows Live.
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Before we even managed to download the app, we had a pretty good idea in our heads as to what it would look like: lately Google has been favoring a minimalist user interface across the board, which means Android and iOS users should be able to find their way around Google services without experiencing the hazards of a learning curve.
By introducing the television-like device with expanded computer capabilities and with the same user interface as iPods, iPhones, iPads, and Macs, Apple would benefit, yet again, from the Halo Effect and expand its media influence to the living room.
Additionally, the MX-1 comes equipped with a host of SLR-like features to optimize its operability, including advanced UI (user interface) functions, easy-to-access controls and in-body RAW data development.
Windows 7, for instance, can pull the user out of the interface's console-like experience with a security alert, requiring a bona fide mousing peripheral to put its concerns to rest.
The M500's user interface is fairly intuitive and it's not like we had any trouble figuring out how to get around or do stuff once we'd spent a few minutes with it.
"It's no coincidence that Samsung's latest products look a lot like the iPhone and iPad, from the shape of the hardware to the user interface and even the packaging, " she said.
The key is for them to play nice with each other, and the answer isn't a one-way interface like IR, or an HDMI pass-through with multiple user interfaces layered on top of each other.
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It will have some attractive features like support for big screens (7 inch to 9 inch), a totally new user interface, extensive multi-tasking and multiple home screens among other features.
We do this by incorporating lessons and assignments in agile development, iterating user interface by using emerging lean user experience methods and well grounded user research methods like contextual design.
Another entrant, Jolla, says its 'Sailfish' platform is a second-generation operating system like BlackBerry's BB10 and is easy to use because it has a gesture-based user interface and is designed to avoid patent litigation.
Inclusion of an advanced user interface or content discovery engine, but not a standard browser with typed search terms like a PC.
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While the Xbox 360 requires a quick trip to the dashboard to edit things like resolution and audio output, the Echo is easily configured without a gaming controller, thanks to a user interface that has the same look and feel as the rest of Media Center.
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