This one’s pretty old, but I just heard about it thanks to a tip from that great guy @patrickpatience. ZeroWatch is a… [copy-paste]: The concept of the ZIIIRO Watch is a clock face without hands or markings, instead a constantly changing pattern of rings indicates the passing of time. The main theme is minimalism, so there are no distracting elements in the design, after a short time you will acquire a feel for reading the time. Best of all, it’s free. Even better, it’s a real watch you can strap on your wrist. The real one’s called ZIIIRO, and comes…
Author: Milind Alvares
Robocat apps is back again with yet another artsy app. Thermo is a simple weather app, telling you the current temperature outside, beautifully illustrated on a giant thermometer. It also tells you yesterday’s temperature, but that’s about it. It’s a free download, but if you care at all about user interface, you’d want to remove the ad banner from the bottom at $0.99. Also check out the website, which simulates the app’s functionality pretty well (actually I think the website version looks prettier than the app).
While parallax scrolling sure is the wow factor of the times, this is the first time I’m seeing this surreal depth scrolling — I don’t know what it’s called — user interface on a website. It’s freaky, to say the least. Check it out.
The Lateral design team has done an outstanding job with their team page. Clever javascript coupled with a lot of hard work. It’s best viewed in a desktop environment with a mouse pointer. There’s no point talking about it; head over there and see for yourself. Lateral: The Team.
Nial’s back! Who Nial? Nial Giacomelli, the guy who created the splendid Showtime and Nibbble web apps. But this time his pixel goodness is wrapped in Cocoa touch, downloadable from the App Store. Episodes follows continues Showtime’s story, but this time he’s serious. Episodes will keep track of your favourite shows, search through TVDB for episode info, and get recommendations for new shows. In terms of functionality it’s nothing revolutionary, but it’s certainly a pixelicious UI. It’s surprising that he’s accomplished all of this using relatively native controls. Episodes is $0.99 on the App Store. One last thing I should…
Zach Forrester, the guy who mocked up a 3D Mission Control UI when Lion was announced, takes yet another stab at Apple’s user interfaces — Front Row. Before I go any further, I’ll say that designing Media Center interfaces can let the imagination run a little too wild. On the one hand you can make them highly interactive, vibrant, and delicious looking interfaces, but at the same time make sure that it’s all logical, fast, and easy to understand. Take for instance Plex, which is a great media center app, but a little difficult to get around for someone who…