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Zoomable Flash UI

Posted on: Sunday, September 30th, 2007 in: Flash, Programming, User Interfaces

I forgot that I’d written this a while back. It’s a zoomable user interface written in flash.
Eventually I wanted to be able to edit in place, and to a certain extent you can. The bottom left panel is a drawing area.
http://zoom.machete.ca
It works, just didn’t like having it written in flash.

Fisheye Calendar

Posted on: Friday, September 28th, 2007 in: JavaScript, PHP, Programming, User Interfaces

As yet another proof of concept I’ve implemented a **zooming calendar system**.
It’s an attempt to retain user context even when drilling down into the details of an arbitrary interface. Calendar just happens to be a slick demo.
Thoughts?
http://calendar.machete.ca/test/2007/11/

Modeless Webpage Editor

Posted on: Thursday, September 27th, 2007 in: JavaScript, Programming, User Interfaces

Here’s my prototype for a modeless website WYSIWYG.
http://www.machete.ca/mui/
It doesn’t persist, it doesn’t have many commands, and it’s not exactly pretty. But what it does have is something I haven’t seen online before.
I’m hoping to turn it into a “muscle memory editor”. This is so beyond thought through that I’m not even sure if […]