Zooming is an important part of THE and this simple demo illustrates some of the ways that zooming solves the navigation problems posed by our present system of links, tabs, and other click-and-go-there interfaces. The design specification calls for the left mouse button to zoom in and the right to zoom out. Unfortunately, Macromedia's Flash, in which this demo was implemented, does not reconize mouse buttons so we have to use the keyboard buttons, even though they are not nearly as pleasant to use.
Hello
I’ve been thinking a lot about this type of interface.
An introductory blog post on a project involving the use
of Zooming User Interfaces (ZUI) in conjunction with flickr
can be found at
http://gasi.ch/blog/2007/10/29/tandem/
An early prototype of the application can be found at
The newest revision which I have not released yet
is making use of the mouse-wheel to enable free zooming
in contrast to the two-state zooming of the version above.
I am looking forward to reading more
posts about zooming user interfaces on your blog…
Regards,
Daniel
Max Kiesler is an award-winning strategic designer and co-founder
and principal of Ideacodes.com, a web consultancy in San Francisco focused on next generation websites. About Max...
