TogUISuggestions

Tog on Apple squandering advantage : http://www.asktog.com/columns/035SquanAdv.html

Has some interesting ideas for incremental UI improvements :

• another return key on left of keyboard. Right handed mouse users can hit return w/out letting go of mouse

• start to use gestures with a pen/pad interface

• integrated phone / voice recognition

• piles (a high level grouping of documents represented by a single icon. Can search through the pile by clicking on it and dragging the mouse.)

• filing cabinets with labelled draws

• scrap-books (miscellaneous collections of files and clip-board objects which can be browsed in thumbnail mode or opened as a virtual book)

• folders with visual cues as to size and age of contents

• people represented by icons on desktop : I should be able to drag a document onto an icon-sized photo of a colleague and have it automatically sent to the default address.

• tabbed virtual desktops (or projects)

See also :

• AnimatedInterfaces

• AnEasyInterface