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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There are only two articles available now, the rest is still unpublished:
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
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Planned Content
- Introduction ZUI Wiki
- Goals of ZUIWiki
- Zooming User Interface History
- Beginning of 20th Century: Microfilm readers
- 1977-1978 Spatial Data Management System
- 1991-: PAD, PAD++, JAZZ, PICCOLO2D ZUI toolkit line
- 2000: Humane Interface
- 2003-: Seadragon — Photosynth line
- 2007: iPhone comes out with pinch based zooming in Safari
- 2007-: Prezi starts as a zooming presentation tool
- 2008-: Eagle mode file manager and graphical environment
- 2010-: Raskin for Mac
- ZUI History Conclusion
- Basics
- Definitions
- ZUI
- Spatial Memory
- Screen restricted interfaces
- Screen independent interfaces
- Human Data Interaction
- Allegory Based Computing
- Comparing Zooming Interfaces to Window Based Interfaces
- Advantages of ZUIs
- Disadvantages of ZUIs
- Grouping of ZUIs
- Gestures
- Zooming gestures
- Pinch
- Mouse wheel
- Spiralling gesture
- Click / single tap
- Double tap (double click)
- Zooming gestures
- ZUI Prototypes
- Pseudocode
- Realization in Flash
- Realization in Javascript - HTML5
- Realization in Unity 3D
- Issues
- Losing orientation / Desert fog effect
- Zooming too slow/too fast
- ...
- Active ZUI projects in 2013
- Zooming Interviews
- Raskin for Mac
- Prezi?
- Future / Vision
- Other Zooming Subjects
- Estimated complexity and costs of development for different types of ZUIs
- Futher ZUI possibilities:
- Self Made GUIs and products
- Relevant links and other resources
- About ZUIWiki
