Revision as of 12:42, 14 August 2013

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 this concept

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There are only two articles available now, the rest is still unpublished: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. ZUI Prototypes
9. Pseudocode
10. Realization in Flash
11. Realization in Javascript - HTML5
12. Realization in Unity 3D
13. Issues
    1. Losing orientation / Desert fog effect
    2. Zooming too slow/too fast
    3. ...
14. Gestures
    1. Zooming gestures
       1. Pinch
       2. Mouse wheel
       3. Spiralling gesture
       4. Click / single tap
       5. Double tap (double click)
15. Active ZUI projects in 2013
16. Future / Vision
17. Other Zooming Subjects
18. Estimated complexity and costs of development for different types of ZUIs
19. Futher ZUI possibilities:
20. Self Made GUIs and products
21. About ZUIWiki