This section of Navigator is the entryway to the extensive listings of vetted projects exploring uses of emerging technologies contained in the Horizon Project data set — easily the largest database of its kind in the world.
A research site by the New Media Consortium that shows novel research projects for developing mobile learning / interactive apps. Perhaps the MD team can take a look through the research projects and see which can be adapted for our own projects?
very useful article for those working on forms. especially the new workshop admin module website. instead of a full form, a interactive experience as such brings higher motivation and helps user to navigate the form with ease
for Sally and team
YellowBird, a Netherlands-based video technology startup, just had its interactive, 360-degree video player approved by YouTube for integration into YouTube's channels. With the new player, you can now not only watch immersive, 360-degree YouTube videos, you can also navigate the video by dragging your mouse. As TechCrunch rightly described it last year - it's like Google Street View for video.
YellowBird says its original player was customized specifically for this project into an embeddable widget which also contains social networking links, a 2D (unwrapped) version of the video and a link to buy the album from inside the player.
About yellowBird
The company builds 360-degree experiences
Woopid is site that lets users watch video tutorials about all things technology. It is an easy to navigate site with hundreds of videos on using software and hardware products on all major computer platforms. A great site for technology trainers, teachers introducing basic computing functions to students, or just anyone who wants to learn something new.
The success of web applications and websites depends in how effective the User Interface design is. Designing a good user interface however is a very challenging task. Above anything else, the designer has to focus his attention towards giving the end-user a great experience with the system. Whether the designer is working on a website, a mobile application, or a game interface it is always a must that the convenience of the user is given paramount importance.
In this article, we are sharing with you some user interface designs that not only allow easy navigation or use of the end-users but also ones that can encourage them to use the system. These designs can be used as an inspiration in your efforts to make your projects more user-friendly. Here you can find UI designs for audio and video applications, mobile systems, game apps, web interfaces and etc.
1. Know Your Audience
If you don't know who your audience is, how will you ever connect with them? Most brands have an understanding of their audience's demographics - age, gender, HHI, ethnicity. But you have to go beyond these statistics to get a better understanding of their interests, needs, mindsets, and behaviors to truly make a connection and become an important part of their lives.
In addition to the standard methods of audience discovery - industry research, focus groups, and brand surveys - you can also use social media data to build audience personas. Social monitoring software, Facebook Custom Audience, social referrals to your website, and question-and-answer sites are just a few of the sources you can use to learn more about your audience.
2. Provide Value
Your content must provide some type of value to your audience. That value could be education, increased productivity, entertainment, or cost savings. To the consumer, it shouldn't seem like marketing, even though we know it is by nature. It's providing long-term awareness and brand recall. It's making sure your brand is right there with the consumer at each step along their path to purchase so that when it comes time to make a decision, you're the first brand that comes to mind.
4. Look Beyond Facebook and Twitter
Creating content doesn't automatically mean users will come consume it and engage with your brand as a result. You must draw attention to the content through owned, earned, and paid methods across a variety of channels, not just the big ones.
Ask yourself how else you can maximize the value of each piece of content and each campaign: Can you make the content more visible and sharable on your website? What other social channels does your audience use besides Facebook and Twitter? Can you use sites that accept submissions of specific content, like Visual.ly for infographics or Online-Sweepstakes.com for contests? How much are you able to pay to distribute your content on sites such as Outbrain or Taboola? Are you using Google+ to link to content on your website? (If the answer is no, I urge you to start today. Google+, while lacking in the engagement department, has a major impact on organic ranking.)
People share things not only because those things look good, but because those things make them look good.
7. Measure Success
Before creating a single piece of content or posting one Facebook message, determine the objective of your content and what metrics you will use to measure performance.
hile the specific metrics in each bucket will vary based on your strategy, objectives, and resources, some common ones are:
Awareness - impressions, reach, mentions
Consumption - clicks, visits, referrals
Engagement - likes, shares, +1s, time on site
Actions - leads/sales, PDF downloads, newsletter sign-ups, site navigation
Animoto’s functionality is in the ability to take photos and video that the
user specifies, add a music soundtrack ,which can be from their open source
music library or music uploaded by the user, to create a movie complete with
transitions.
it is a great way to have students in an online class introduce themselves.
Students are able to choose the images they would like to share as well as
select their music. This provides a window to the students when they get to
choose how to express themselves
ith a robust page/view mechanism supporting transitions, UI elements, dead-simple navigation, and list management, the jQuery Mobile framework provides everything you need to get up and running quickly with a mobile-savvy website or application without a complete crash-course in a new development model.
In the next version of Dreamweaver, we plan to allow easy creation of a jQuery Mobile project and easy insert objects to let you build out your user interfaces quickly and with confidence. Greatly expanded jQuery code hinting will help professionals make the best use of their time and enable designers to more effectively understand the syntax and structure of jQuery. Combined with the WebKit-powered Live View introduced in Dreamweaver CS4, you’ll be armed with some of the most powerful tools available to help your clients and projects move swiftly into a multiscreen world.
jQuery goes mobile. Simple attributes applied to basic elements are all you need, and the jQuery Mobile API offers endless possibilities to those who wish to go under the hood.
iUI is a framework consisting of a JavaScript library, CSS, and images for developing advanced mobile webapps for iPhone and comparable/compatible devices.
iUI has the following features: Create Navigational Menus and iPhone-style interfaces from standard HTML Use or knowledge of JavaScript is not required to create modern mobile web pages Ability to handle phone orientation changes Provide a more "iPhone-like" experience in your Web apps
Google launched a new weather
search feature for iOS and Android browsers. When you navigate to google.com
and search for "weather", you will be presented with a widget-like interface
that shows your current conditions and immediate forecast.