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ZUI-Wiki Zooming User Interface WIKI

Goals of this Wiki

• Collect and store relevant information for ZUI developers
• Give ideas, how a zooming version of well known software products could look like
• Help to form a community around zooming user interfaces

Current status

There are only two articles available now, the rest is still unpublished:

• Zooming User Interface History
• About ZUIWiki

How great it would be, if you could recommend me some parts to finish first! If you would contribute some text, that would be marvellous! Contact me at zbalai.

Planned Content

1. Introduction ZUI Wiki
2. Goals of ZUIWiki
3. Zooming User Interface History
   1. Beginning of 20th Century: Microfilm readers
   2. 1977-1978 Spatial Data Management System
   3. 1991-: PAD, PAD++, JAZZ, PICCOLO2D ZUI toolkit line
   4. 2000: Humane Interface
   5. 2003-: Seadragon — Photosynth line
   6. 2007: iPhone comes out with pinch based zooming in Safari
   7. 2007-: Prezi starts as a zooming presentation tool
   8. 2008-: Eagle mode file manager and graphical environment
   9. 2010-: Raskin for Mac
   10. ZUI History Conclusion
4. Basics
5. Definitions
   1. ZUI
   2. Spatial Memory
   3. Screen restricted interfaces
   4. Screen independent interfaces
   5. Human Data Interaction
   6. Allegory Based Computing
6. Comparing Zooming Interfaces to Window Based Interfaces
   1. Advantages of ZUIs
   2. Disadvantages of ZUIs
7. Grouping of ZUIs
8. Gestures
   1. Zooming gestures
      1. Pinch
      2. Mouse wheel
      3. Spiralling gesture
      4. Click / single tap
      5. Double tap (double click)
9. ZUI Prototypes
10. Pseudocode
11. Realization in Flash
12. Realization in Javascript - HTML5
13. Realization in Unity 3D
14. Issues
    1. Losing orientation / Desert fog effect
    2. Zooming too slow/too fast
    3. font/text/typography and the different manifestations of it (bold/italic, etc)
    4. loading, smooth transitions vs images, fonts, graphics
    5. ...
15. Active ZUI projects
16. Zooming Interviews
    1. Raskin for Mac
    2. Prezi?
17. Future / Vision
18. Other Zooming Subjects
19. Estimated complexity and costs of development for different types of ZUIs
20. Futher ZUI possibilities:
21. Self Made GUIs and products
22. Relevant links and other resources
23. About ZUIWiki