Has anyone actually used this design? My guess is that it's impossible to accurately speculate about how good or bad this is without trying it and without being tainted by pre-knowledge of its adaptive behavior. It all depends on the execution.
There are plenty of poor examples of adaptive UIs, but there are great examples too. Quicksilver is an adaptive example that I love. It's guessing and learning all the time. And right out of the box it's more than a little dumb. But over time it has learned what I tend to search for and serves it up practically the moment my fingers hit the keyboard. Another example that's closer to the MIT example was the BBC redesign described a few years ago. http://www.liamdelahunty.com/blog/media/theglasswall.pdf Instead of shifting the location of content, it highlighted particular paths through the content, based on past behavior so that frequently clicked areas grew more prominent over time. Like a well-trampled path across a lawn. // jeff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=30025 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
